[h=2]Coin Collecting at the Safir House Cave Art of Chauvet Coin[/h] Sun Jun 24 00:48:16 2012 [HR][/HR] Prehistoric Artistic Masterpiece [h=3]Cave Art of Chauvet Coin[/h] The magic of the prehistoric art in the Chauvet Cave and a description of the cave itself is hard to get ones mind around and certainly beyond the scope of this small web page. The cave was the star of the movie done by Werner Herzog, who brought this great monument to life in 3D spender with his release "Cave of Forgotten dreams". The cave itself extends about 400 meters end to end. It has several galleries of art scenes which exploit the shape of the walls, and the cave features to attenuate the affects of the art. Movement, emotion, landscape and realism and surrealism are all exploited in techniques of the cave. The height of the hunt of cats, and the chase of bison and horse are represented with all the tension of life on a savanna. The animals roar to life, gather at a watering hole near a real spring, and seemingly demonstrate some fertility symbols. Aside from the painting, it would seem the cave was not so much used for human occupation rather than either religious events or simply as an artistic exercise for the spiritual experience of the creation of art. The cave itself was occupied by the Cave Bear, an extinct form of bear far larger that today’s grizzly bear, and cave lions, also now extinct. A skull of a bear is placed on an raised platform in a central and highly aesthetic position. The cave itself opened to the banks of the Ardèche river allowing considerable light in. About 27,000 years ago, an avalanche sealed the cave almost perfectly leaving a time capsule 32,000 years old, including bones, and foot human foot prints in the soft cave bottom. wikpedia The Bradshaw Site Experience Ardeche Official Government Site The Chauvet Cave Coin is a One Half Ounce 925/1000 solver proof coin, 35mm diameter coin with a mintage of only 1000 pieces minted in Britain. Its face value is one dollar, and colored with the painting of the cats on a textured background. It coin could have been much better if the background followed the contours of the cave itself, giving the rendering a more realistic feel closer to the original [TABLE="class: cms_table"] 2011 One Dollar Niue Cave of Chauvet Prehistoric Painting Obverse [/TABLE] [TABLE="class: cms_table"] 2011 One Dollar Niue Cave of Chauvet Prehistoric Painting Reverse [/TABLE] This is the Formated Archive of images of this coin. [HR][/HR] Several mints from around the world make exciting coin designs in circulating alloys, silver and gold. Among my favorites are the Perth Mint in Austrailia which produces a variety of coins for nations mostly through out the Pacific Rim. The Neatherlands has also produced some interesting designs, and several private US based mints have produced foreign currency on contract, include the Franklin Mint which has produced many Israeli Coins. Our interest in foreign coins has been nominal but rapidly growing as it seems that US designs are so stuck in the mud. Also, foreign mints are creating bold new designs with color and bimetal designs that are both eye catching and fun. This is a short list of our current modern design: [HR][/HR] Australan Silver Koala Australan Kookaburra Silver Austrailian Perth Mint Reef II Sea Life Silver Hawkbill Turtle Austrailian Perth Mint Reef II Sea Life Series Octopus Austrailian Perth Mint Reef II Sea Life Series Starfish Austrailian Perth Mint Reef II Sea Life Series Surgeon Fish Austrailian Perth Mint Reef II Sea Life Series Manta Ray Austrailian Perth Mint Silver Cockatoo Parrot Austrailian Perth Mint Dollar Silver Dugong Austrailian Deadly and Dangerous Silver Ringed Octopus Cayman Islands Cuban Amazon Parrot: 25 Anniversity World Wifelife Fund Chinese Silver Panda Easter Islands Fiji Island Turtle Bullion from New Zeland German 10 Euro Archeopteryx Coin Indo-Sassanian Gadhaya Paisa Saurastrat - Silver Coin Israeli Coins Judean Roman Wars Judean Herodian Coinage Kashmir Kurdistan Macabean Coins Netherlands Architecture Commemerative Euro Netherlands 400 years since the discovery of Manhattan Commem New Zealand 1996 Kaka Parrot $5 Silver Dollar Niue Island Artist Series: Van Gogh Niue Island Cave of Chauvet Western Satraps 1st Century - 2nd Centry India -R-Drachm Israeli Akko, Birds, Red Sea and Elijah Coins. Perth Minti Kookabura and Koalas, and Van Gogh Coin from Niue Island [HR][/HR] Our modest collection generally contains the following coins types. Click to see these examples show below including photography: Large Cent Coppers Flying Eagle Cents Lincoln Cents and Wheat Backs Buffalo Nickels Jefferson Nickels Bust Half Dimes Mercury (Liberrty Head) Dimes Roosevelt Dime Barber Quarter Dollars Standing Libery Quarter Washington and Washington State Quarters Cap Bust Half Dollars Seated Half Dollars Barber Half Dollars Walking Liberty Half Dollars Franklin Half Dollars Kennedy Half Dollars Morgan Silver Dollars Peace Silver Dollars Eisenhower Clad and Silver Dollars Sacawagea Golden Dollars Modern Silver and Clad Proof Sets Modern American Silver Eagle uncirculated mint coins and proofs Modern Silver and Clad 2008 Commemorative Bald Eagle Series Gold Coins - Not too many Modern Foreign Coins from Outside The United States Circulated US Silver Coins prior to 1964
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