Trade Show Trip
It just wouldn’t be cricket to let the lead-up to the trade show go past without putting REAL LIFE EVENTS into a story format for readers!
Musings
The Good, The Bad and The Butt-Ugly – ‘Copy Coins’
We’ve all seen them, haven’t we? Those crap and inferior reproductions of coins people are desperate to own. At one time these would have been outed from online market places such as eBay. And people who sold them would also have been investigated by the powers that be. But things have clearly changed and …
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Coins Fit For a King
Seeing a new monarch ascending to the throne is quite a big occasion. In fact, it is something very few of us have ever witnessed. So, designing a suitable batch of coins to symbolise this is no easy task.
To the Moon and Back
Work by Anita Jeram is highly stylized, instantly recognisable and also utterly beautiful. These are three of the primary reasons why her books and pictures are in such high demand and why she is taken very seriously as a modern illustrator.
What a Little Bird Told me (When I Became King)
A new monarch and a new era for coins. And as a matter of course and tradition he faces the opposite way to his late mother. But do you know about the quirky little ‘hidden’ detail on our new coinage?
‘By the (Egyptian) Gods!!! – Copy Coins!’
The Westminster Collection have just released their latest ‘non legal tender’ fifty pence shaped coin and it is a stunner! This is very much down to the clever idea of inverting the whole premise of most coin designs. By making the background very detailed and the main object in the work quite plain, this will …
Coin Arena – ‘Mayflower’ vs. ‘Mayflower’
A long, long time ago in a Welsh town far, far away…. a trial two pound coin was created. And on this was the ship of the Pilgrim Fathers, ‘The Mayflower’. The year was 1994. But this was not the first time this vessel had graced the surface of a coin. To begin with there …
Death in Slo-Mo
Welcome to ‘Dystopia in the Making’. You think I am kidding? Seriously, take a look at what is going on right now. And the next time you are paying to park with your phone or having to use an app to inflate your tyres, please think back to this post 😉
Why the Lion is so Tired
Here in the UK we have laws to protect the welfare of animals. And quite rightly too! So, when it comes to food production, the testing of cosmetics or the production of clothing, there are strict guidelines to adhere to. But all of this appears to have gone out of the window as far as …
PC, BU, BS – (The Dark Side of Children’s Characters)
Whether or not Enid Blyton was a homosexual racist is unclear. It is well documented that she did not like children very much, which considering what she is so famous for is a little strange in itself. As for the rest, the jury are out.
