Featured Monsters, interdimensional portals and stranger things still/ How deep is your demension?

Halloween 2008 Ann Arbor.



Kids got world paper or world coins.
Grown ups got stock certificates.
(It was the 2008 Meltdown.)
Q: "What are these worth?"
A: "Much less now!"

 

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Some discussions here can be found by searching for "Chimirri". Geraldine Chimirri-Russell is the Calgary museum curator who first posited the existence of 3-dimensional images on ancient coins. I wrote about them for several numismatic venues. It was just rejected by the ANA.

More on this, later, but for now:
"The three-dimensional appearance was first reported by Geraldine Chimrri-Russell of the Nickle Arts Museum of the University of Calgary, in “Changing Artistic Perspectives on Celtic Coins,” a paper delivered to the 13th International Conference on Numismatics, held in Madrid, Spain, September 15-18, 2003.

Since then, other numismatists have reported similar effects on coins of other cultures. Among them is John Talbot, author of Made for Trade: A New View of Icenian Coinage (Oxbow, 2017)."

 

stranger things still:

 

Some of us are showing our age (and taste in humor). Since we are entering an election year: