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El Alcázar De Segovia
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Windjammer Barefoot Cruises Doubloon
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S/V Yankee Clipper
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Segovia Mint Logo Sans WaterWheel
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A Complicated And Interesting Numismatic Specimen
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Museo De La Moneda - PROYECTO Segovia
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Museo De La Moneda - PROJECT Segovia
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This WebPage Dedicated to Segovia, Spain Medals
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Presented here are five Segovia, Spain Medal SBsubjects.
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...only made possible by the talent and generosity of
Ron Landis,
Master Engraver
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Alcazar
Segovia - 1989
Silver - 33.0-33.5mm
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El Alcázar De Segovia
This early medal may well reflect the start of Ron's interest in the
Segovia, Spain region in general and the Segovia Mint in particular.
He went on to build a set of roller dies to demonstrate how the Segovia
Mint created coinage hundreds of years ago. We have some wonderful
Texas RenFest Trade Tokens as a result. Anything Ron gets involved
in always benefits us all.
The "Alcázar De Segovia" castle was built on the site of an old Arab
stronghold, and is a good example of Spanish Gothic architecture. The
rear façade of the castle has very slim, stone towers that rise high
above the merlon topped walls. A fire ravaged much of the castle's
interior in the mid-1800s, but it has been completely restored.
When Ron created this early Segovia medal he chose his Royal Mint
1989 Annual Renaissance Medal obverse die to use as the reverse.
It is always COOL to find these matings of other Landis creations
with new pieces. Both of these medals are really nice Landis creations!
EMail:Verne R. Walrafen
Royal
Mint 1989 Annual Renaissance Medal
Brass
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Windjammer
"Doubloon"
Silver - Die Trial -
28.7-30.0mm
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Windjammer Barefoot Cruises Doubloon
Above on the left we see Ron headed off toward the creation of a
"Doubloon" for the
Link:Windjammer Barefoot Cruises,
Ltd. company. They wanted a medal that had the flavor of a
Spanish Doubloon. This circa 1989-1992 specimen appears to be a trial
strike before any legend was added around the periphery of the die.
(See the "Eureka Springs" note below
for what this die actually is.) Ron used a previously existing
Royal Mint budded cross die, above on the right, as a reverse
for this trial strike. A budded cross has "flaring or flowering" at
the end of each arm.
The reason we know that Ron was working on this Windjammer "Doubloon"
die in the 1989-1992 timeframe will become apparent as you read the
following SBsubjects on this webpage. We will find this
unfinished terminal
die paired up with Ron's work on a Segovia 1/2 ounce silver medal dated
1992. We will also find a 11 January 1989 Coin World news release
showing the "1992" Segovia medal. Nothing is ever simple when trying to
research past activities of this nature.
Ron said the Windjammer folks wanted a medal that had the flavor of a
Spanish "doubloon." To me a doubloon means a Spanish gold piece. You
will note that Ron didn't model his reverse die after the gold 1
Escudos below left but rather it is most similar to the silver 8
Reales, a "piece-of-eight," below right.
EMail:Verne R. Walrafen
Eureka Springs - 12 August 2003:
Ron informed me of two significant facts about these pieces.
First... the "1992" Segovia medals were being created several
years before the 500th Aniversary Year of 1992 so the 11 January 1989
Coin World article makes perfect sense. That makes the project year
more properly 1988.
Second... what I took to be the unfinished first stage of the
Windjammer "Doubloon" reverse die was actually its terminal stage.
After the project evaporated on TheGuys, Ron ground the "Windjammer
Barefoot Cruises" legend off the die and used it for various trial
strikes around the mint. I saw the actual die today along with the
large castle, small castle and small lion punches that Ron used to
create it with originally. COOL!
EMail:Verne R. Walrafen
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1607 -
King Philip III - 1 Escudo - Segovia Mint
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1635 -
King Philip IIII - 8 Reales - Segovia Mint
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S/V
Yankee Clipper
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Yankee
Clipper Medal
Copper - Die Trial -
33.3mm
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S/V Yankee Clipper
Next we see the same
unfinished terminal
Windjammer "Doubloon" reverse die being used for this trial strike of
Ron's Yankee Clipper obverse die for the proposed
Link:Windjammer Barefoot Cruises,
Ltd. company's "Doubloon". This is the only known strike of
this "YANKEE CLIPPER" obverse die and, to the best of Ron's recall,
no actual production medals were ever produced for the Windjammer folks.
EMail:Verne R. Walrafen
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Built in 1927, CRESSIDA, was one of the only armor plated private yachts in the world. Confiscated during World War II as a war prize, she was later acquired by the Vanderbilt's and renamed PIONEER. Racing off Newport Beach, California, PIONEER was considered one of the fastest tall ships on the west coast. In 1965, she joined the Windjammer Fleet and was christened the YANKEE CLIPPER.
Link:S/V Yankee
Clipper ... 6-Days St. Vincent & The Grenadines.
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Segovia
Castle / Windjammer "Doubloon"
Silver - Die Trial -
27.9-30.2mm
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Segovia Mint Logo Sans WaterWheel
Here again we find the
unfinished terminal
Windjammer "Doubloon" reverse die... this time being used as a reverse
die for a trial strike of Ron's Segovia Mint "castle." This is Ron's
first step toward the creation of half ounce silver medals for the
Segovia Mint Restoration Project.
The other obverse die detail would be added later to create the
"MUSEO DE LA MONDEA" obverse working die. A medal struck from that
die is shown here on the right.
Note that, during this phase of the Segovia Project medal die creation,
there is still no sort of legend around the periphery of the
Windjammer "Doubloon" reverse die. If we hadn't found a specimen with
such a legend (coming up in the SBsubject immediately below) it sure
would have been easy to conclude that this die had never gotten finished.
The waterwheel on the left above is the logo Ron designed for the Segovia
Mint in 1992. You can see a sideview of a very similar waterwheel on
Ron's medal. Glenn recently informed us that the 20-blade waterwheel on
the right above is what the original Segovia Mint actually was equipped
with. Glenn has asked Ron to design a new logo for them. I look forward
to what Ron comes up with.
EMail:Verne R. Walrafen
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Segovia/Windjammer
Silver - Die Trial -
27.4-28.7mm
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A Complicated And Interesting Numismatic Specimen
Now we get down to the really fun stuff. This die trial has absolutely
everything one could ever wish for! This specimen is the Rosetta Stone
that ties the Windjammer and Segovia medals together ...PLUS...
it has other exceptionally interesting numismatic aspects.
This is a die trial ...NOT a production error ...NOT a pièce de caprice!
Actually, it could be a die trial of either the Segovia Project
obverse die ...or... the Windjammer "Doubloon" reverse die.
At this point the Segovia obverse die has all the additional detail
necessary to strike those medals ...and... the Windjammer reverse die
has its legend of "Windjammer Barefoot Cruises."
PLUS... TheGuys didn't create a new silver planchet to hot strike this
die trial. They grabbed a previously existing medal of the approximate
size and weight of the final Segovia Project ".5 Oz. Ag" medal. This
leads me to believe that this specimen is actually a trial of the
Segovia obverse die
and not a trial of the Windjammer reverse die. This conclusion is also
supported by the fact that you really can't even see the full legend
on the Windjammer reverse die because the silver planchet was simply
too small. All this isn't really terribly important anyway since this
is a wonderful specimen regardless of precisely why it was created.
It captures both dies for us so we can document and enjoy Ron's work.
The enlarged scans on the left and right above show portions of the
original underlying Royal Mint "Pan" medal. We have visited this medal
previously in SBsubject
Link:The Road To Perfection.
The bust of Pan is quite clear on the original obverse of this
specimen. The original reverse shows some sort of wreath of leaves
plus a set of eight heavy parallel bars. These two design components
don't "feel" like they belong together... as if the original medal
had already been multi-struck itself. I know I have seen the "heavy
bars" design element on a medal someplace so I'll keep my eyes open
and perhaps this puzzle will become more understandable at some
future date.
FINALLY... I bet you thought we were already done with this puppy
...small number punches were used on this piece sometime after
being overstruck. It is hard to see each and every punch mark on
the reverse of this specimen from these relatively small scans.
There are three "2" punches, four "3" punches and four "5" punches
scattered randomly about in varying orientations and mostly in
the open field areas of this piece. The purpose for these punch
marks has been lost in time. OK! Now I think I'm actually
done...
:-)
EMail:Verne R. Walrafen
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PROYECTO
Segovia "1/2 Oz Ag" Medal
Silver - 27.7-28.4mm
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Museo De La Moneda - PROYECTO Segovia
I figured I'd never see the Spanish variety of Ron's hot struck silver
Segovia medals when Glenn told me that the medals which went to Spain
had been stolen. Then... while browsing through Ron's Museum Collection
there was a "PROYECTO" medal!
An interesting and readily noticeable difference between the English
"PROJECT" and the Spanish "PROYECTO" versions of this medal is that
in the exergue the English die reads ".5 Oz. Ag" while the
Spanish die reads "1/2 Oz. Ag".
I couldn't help but be struck by the similarity of Ron's acqueduct
on the reverse of these 1992 Segovia silver medals and the rather
common 1833 Segovia copper piece's depiction of the acqueduct you
see here below.
EMail:Verne R. Walrafen
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Excerpt from SBwebpage58:
11 January 1989 Coin World
PROJECT
Segovia ".5 Oz Ag" Medal
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Museo De La Moneda - PROJECT Segovia
Somewhere I must have a good B&W photo of Ron's half-ounce piece, but
I couldn't find it, or more than a zerox copy of the Coin World
article. The few original half-ounce pieces I had were stolen while
they were in Segovia City Hall (thus there are five or six floating
somewhere around Segovia.) I learned my lesson with the larger piece
and never let it out of my hands! Glenn Murray...Monday, April
21, 2003 5:14PM
AGAIN Glenn Murray, in Segovia Spain, comes through for us.
He sent us a scan of a portion of a 11 January 1989 Coin World
article which shows another Ron Landis medal... one which I have never
seen previous to this. A half ounce of pure silver would make this medal
roughly the size of a U.S. Half Dollar. So... now we have another
treasure to search for and to learn about. The mystery and the
fun just never ends!
EMail:Verne R. Walrafen
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