New Scores for my Symphony Set

[Lastufka Collection]

Pun intended.

 

Back in 2012 my custom Symphony Set won NGC's Most Creative award. Thanks NGC! The Symphony Set is a collection of world and US coins and tokens that include musical elements or themes, from composers to instruments to sheet music.

 

I haven't added to it in three years as I was away from coins while moving across the country and selling my business. But now that I'm back I have added a number of new coins to the Symphony Set, and I re-imaged the entire set last week.

 

So I thought I'd share the latest newp.

 

It's a 1788 halfpenny. The edges are scalloped (which looks really cool), and it's silvered (from what I've been told that means it's a copper core sandwiched between two thin sheets of silver before being minted). The pressure from the minting process causes the shadowing seen on the lettering around the obverse and reverse. The reverse makes the coin relevant for my set as it features a horn, a stringed instrument, and a music score.

 

It's a lot of eye candy for such an old token. I love it. It's pictured below along with a preview of the re-imaged Symphony Set. Check out my custom sets area to view the full-res Symphony Set images (a few coins are missing description, but those are coming soon, research is a challenge on these scarcer tokens).

 

 

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[Six Mile Rick]

2012 set awards for that set and seems like only a short time ago you wrote about starting the symphony set.

Time sure flies!!

 

I like that rim cut on the 1/2c.

 

[Lastufka Collection]

Rick, you're telling me, the set still seems brand new to me, but most of those coins have been hanging around in my collection for years now. I still really enjoy all of them. There are a lot of interested and unorthodox designs and coin shapes once you move outside of the US. I have a raw coin now that I need to send in for grading that is a perfect square with a gorgeous violin design on it, can't wait to add it to the set.

[lehigh96]

Alan,

 

As an avid fan of classical music and yearly subscriber to the Philadelphia Orchestra, I love the idea behind this set and think your coins are fantastic examples. I can't wait to see that rectangular violin coin when you get it graded. Keep up the great work!

 

Paul