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LinkBack Thread Tools Rate Thread Display Modes 10-07-2009, 02:29 PM   #1 (permalink) edu Junior Member   Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 30 Galleonmade with coins With a background oil painting, the construction of the galleon was made with a wide amount of coins from different countries, values and metals. Medidas do painel / Measures: 1.70 X 1.20 Metros Attached Thumbnails     10-07-2009, 02:53 PM   #2 (permalink) Billy Kingsley History Via Numismatics     Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Dutchess County, New York Posts: 405 My Mood: Blog Entries: 8 I gotta admit, that is pretty cool! __________________ Billy Kingsley Member ANA, SPMC I don't care about a coin or note's "value" or material composition. I care about what it is, and it's place in history! Collector of all coins and currency!   10-07-2009, 07:36 PM   #3 (permalink) byrd740 Numismatist     Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Georgia Posts: 1,535 My Mood: Now, this is pretty cool. Sorry to echo you, Billy, but I can't think of anything else. __________________ Chase A Byrd Coin Collection | www.byrdecoins.tk Member of the ANA, GNA, RCNA and WINSociety Never, Never, Never Quit ~ Winston Churchill   10-07-2009, 09:31 PM   #4 (permalink) MissSasha Junior Member     Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Long Island, NY Posts: 179 I'll take an Elvis portrait made with coins. On black velvet of course. Classy! __________________ Girls dig coins too! Successful trades/sales: Abe, illini420. Giveaways: regadon.   10-08-2009, 10:49 PM   #5 (permalink) Collect89 Coin Collector     Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1,497 Solid Silver Galleon I suspect many silver coins were melted & formed into this silver ship. Would anybody know how much this ship might be worth? I would like to put a price on it so my heirs might have a clue. (I personally don't have a ticket on the clue bus). Attached Thumbnails   __________________ "All of us are smarter than any one of us"   10-08-2009, 10:58 PM   #6 (permalink) k9brain Junior Member     Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Jersey Shore Posts: 79 Cool ship! You should weigh it first to find out the bullion value, just to get an idea of its minimum worth. Ultimately, you should bring it to an antique auction house and have it appraised. It's worth far more than its bullion value.   10-09-2009, 07:14 AM   #7 (permalink) edu Junior Member   Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 30 Goog Day Beautiful piece. Working as an artist. The price can be calculated by weight of silver plus labor Best Regards   10-09-2009, 09:02 AM   #8 (permalink) Collect89 Coin Collector     Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1,497 It is a rare variety with one flag flying into the wind __________________ "All of us are smarter than any one of us"   10-09-2009, 11:39 AM   #9 (permalink) Just Carl Numismatist   Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 4,474 Quote: Originally Posted by Collect89 I suspect many silver coins were melted & formed into this silver ship. Would anybody know how much this ship might be worth? I would like to put a price on it so my heirs might have a clue. (I personally don't have a ticket on the clue bus). How long have you had that one? The main problem in attaching a price on that ship is it's origin, age, creater, etc. AND, is it really Silver, Silver mixed with something else and if so in what proportions. Lots of unknowns to properly evaluate. I wonder if a decent antique store would even know. That is the type of thing for the Antique Road Show on TV.   10-09-2009, 11:41 AM   #10 (permalink) Just Carl Numismatist   Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 4,474 Quote: Originally Posted by edu With a background oil painting, the construction of the galleon was made with a wide amount of coins from different countries, values and metals. Medidas do painel / Measures: 1.70 X 1.20 Metros No one else asked but I'm a bit dumb and lazy enough not to look up a Metro. So what is a Metro? Still nice painting or whatever it is to be called. Wonder how much that is worth? Also, wonder whatever made someone make it in the first place.   10-09-2009, 11:54 AM   #11 (permalink) byrd740 Numismatist     Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Georgia Posts: 1,535 My Mood: Quote: Originally Posted by Just Carl No one else asked but I'm a bit dumb and lazy enough not to look up a Metro. So what is a Metro? Still nice painting or whatever it is to be called. Wonder how much that is worth? Also, wonder whatever made someone make it in the first place. I assume he meant metre. __________________ Chase A Byrd Coin Collection | www.byrdecoins.tk Member of the ANA, GNA, RCNA and WINSociety Never, Never, Never Quit ~ Winston Churchill   10-09-2009, 01:27 PM   #12 (permalink) edu Junior Member   Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 30 These are special flags. They work on their own without aid from any wind. But came to rest of the world.   10-09-2009, 01:36 PM   #13 (permalink) edu Junior Member   Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 30 I apologize for my bad English. The panel measures are in meters The coins in this panel represent the wealth that was the sail of the Portuguese in the world. The heroism of reaching beyond the stormy sea Metro is wrong will be meters All the best   Bookmarks Digg del.icio.us StumbleUpon Google Tags art, coins, painting Would you like to support CoinTalk? Coin Talk Code of Honor 1. Post unto others as you would have them post unto you. 2. 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