Proteus is pretty straightforward. The next one - the space shuttle? Then a coin collecting club, shamrocks, musical instruments, and angels. Perhaps this is heavenly currency? More likely the silly coin they send along with appeals for money from a Catholic charity...
Below are some actual coins (and some other fake ones) that have no value beyond their face value but I found interesting because of defects and damage they have acquired along the way.
From top left: quarter with smooshed rim, quarter that looks thousands of years old (dated 1940), old and new buffalo nickels, rainbow nickel, rainbow dime, glittery dime, glittery penny, blackened dime and some blackened pennies, folded dime, penny that says "39," penny with so much damage that "Liberty" now looks like "Liberyy," penny smooshed by train, fake Delaware quarter, thing that looks like a quarter with no printing on it, dime that is green on back, token from who knows where (probably a game arcade). Below are the backs of the same coins:
And here is yet another cute cake done by my coworker, the one for her older daughter's birthday this past weekend, as well as some heart cookies she made. (She also decorated the pots.) If being a doctor doesn't pan out, she could definitely get a job in cake decorating!
Side View
Front View
Heart Cookies And finally, a patch to fight global climate change! Hardingfele put it on her blog and asked me to put it on mine. Since I believe very strongly in fighting global climate change, I was happy to do so. If you have a blog of your own, please feel free to do so as well.
Famous Hat
2 comments:
Very cool coins. I loved the twisted dime. Probably a train wreck. We have a coin collection as well and a handful of paper money. The Soviet stuff is now obsolete. I think one of the Norwegian coins has a hardingfele on it
Now about the cake - stunning, but probably time consuming. I cannot even imagine how long it took.
The rainbow nickel and dime didn't show up too well on the scan. *Sigh* Hold onto the Soviet stuff, it might be worth something someday, just like all those European coins that are now obsolete with the advent of the Euro.
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