I saw these recently and couldn't resist adding them to my small collection of Uniface casts of ancient coins... These are 19th century uniface casts mounted in small gilt frames with a neat old description hand written on the edge of the frame. They seem to have been mounted onto velvet in some form of display case as there are remnants of the velvet on the bottom of the frames.... Macrinus Sestertius Livia Dupondius Akragas Didrachm Elis Stater Naxos Hemidrachm Does anyone else have odd uniface casts knocking around? Martin
Very cool, never seen anything like that before. Would be cool to find the actual coins & see if they are still circulating in collections.
My other uniface casts are all obverses only. They were all handpainted to attempt to imitate patination.... Here are a few from my collection....I can post more if people are ineterested.. Annia Faustina Caracalla Sestertius Probus Medallion
I thought the same. Your best bet would probably be with the Elis stater or the Naxos hemidrachm. If there's a die corpus, you might be able to find a number of pedigreed examples, and maybe your coin among them.
sorry Martin ... I couldn't resist By the way => I really do think that your new uniface casts are super cool (very neat pick-ups)
oh cool, those are neat martin. those cast were made of some fantastic coins. i've never seen anything like those framed casts though.
I agree those framed ones a special. Not all that long ago, making plaster casts was a skill expected of 'numismatists'. There is at least one 'modern' expert who still prefers them to photos. I have traded casts of my coins with other collectors and even received casts made from casts someone made of coins in the British Museum. I have misplaced that box and REALLY hope I find it someday since it includes some neat coins. I once attended a travelling exhibit of coins at the Smithsonian that had not one single coin but all painted casts on loan from a European museum. I was grossed out but do wish more museums would display a cast of the other side of the coins they display. I trust we all realize that many/most of the photos we see in old books are not of coins but of casts glued up on a board and photographed at 1:1 ratio on a large format view/process camera. I do not recall the issue but there once, long ago, was an article published in The Celator magazine on making casts. It was not great but it was mine. There is a more recent set of instructions still available on Forvm written by a leading proponent of the craft. http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=29974.0;wap2 Every so often I get the urge to make some casts but I usually talk myself out of it since I personally prefer photos.
I have made hundreds of casts of some of my coins to send to Curtis Clay to add to his cast collection. I even got my kids enjoying the process.
