Little Swimmer of the Aegean Sea

There was a time I was proud of my 1.06g obol but now I feel fat shamed. It is almost as thick as it is across making it hard to photograph. The hemiobol seems to be of considerably different style/fabric but they made these over a long period and I have not studied the differences.


Polaroid:
If you don't remember Polaroid you probably don't remember Ansel Adams either. Ansel Adams (died 1984) was the leading American landscape photographer and proponent of large format cut film cameras. I was a fan. Toward the end of his life he worked for Polaroid corporation shooting with a 20x24" Polaroid camera. Some of us thought that was sacrilege but the results were excellent. My personal experience with Polaroid was limited to 4x5" backs for view cameras which we used to make test shots on a set up before committing ourselves to a final exposure and lighting decision. Those were all trashed. There were people who thought they were art but I considered the process a tool. Ansel Adams came to the White House and shot Vice President Water Mondale using the camera. That went well so he came back to use it on President Carter. Since the photos were one of a kind we never got to see them but the link below shows that they were copied and dye transfer prints were made.
http://www.artnet.com/artists/ansel...vice-president-walter-AZEfcsNDmkLFISg9KO1dcw2

To return to numismatic material: Who else remembers when Frank Robinson would shoot amateur Polaroid snaps of coins from his sales for a dollar? His lists were unillustrated then but you could send him a list of lots you wanted to see and he would crowd as many and possible into a same size Polaroid and charge you for the film used. If you only got a few lots, he would combine them with other requests and you would get pieces that looked like a Jigsaw puzzle but that way you could get both sides for only $1. I did not save any of the ones I bought in those days but they did influence whether or not I bid on some coins in the late 80's and 90's.

 

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ha! yeah, i had bookoo tonka trucks i remember smashing with large rocks to give the effect they'd been in a wreck..smh...oh, yes. and nice turtle z, i don't have any to contribute

 

Great turtles!

 

Thanks for the comments, coinshares and turtle tales, all.

Doug - interesting observation about the different style and fabric!

Lord M - Thanks, I enjoyed that link.

 

well, i think everyone knows that i like turtles.

but that little turtles is AWESOME ...even for a turtle.

like that little dude from the nemo movie...




hey did ya'll know there is a new version of the old "polaroid" and it's actually kind of hip. my kids have been taking pictures with them!

 

I'm going to have this Nemo movie some day... .

One more turtle for the road... a cool little Eygptian amulet I picked up awhile back. Like many of those on Aegina staters, he's lost a bit of a limb (top left one).

 

wow, Z-Bro => that lil' amulet is very cool (congrats)

... it looks a bit like a cooked turtle on a plate (mmm, turtle soup)

 

Not so mmmh for me, but turtle soup is hugely popular here. Lots of people have it everyday...

... well, except maybe on Wednesdays .

 

Brutal ... yah, I must have my turtle soup on Wednesdays!!

 

Turtle from the Indian subcontinent:
Ujjain, ca 200BC, Obv: Turtle surrounded by fishes. Rev: Ujjain symbol.
8x9 mm, 0.77 gr, ref: Pieper 377.

 

Wow, that is very cool, thanks for sharing it!