Features of slow matrix

Russian 2 rubles coin.

Defects (or the effect - it is really like to see) is called Rolling shutter due to the slow speed of reading from the matrix and the lack of closure. Occurs now only in mobiles. SLRs such masterpieces can not.

Photo was taken using Sony Ericsson k770i.

Posted by serge, February 5, 2010. Post has 0 comments.
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Tradition during travel

Throw one-cent coin in a fountain to go back.

Fountain near Universal Studios, in the second largest city of United States - Los Angeles.

Posted by serge, February 3, 2010. Post has 4 comments.
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Philosophy on our blog

Collectors are most happy in the two cases: when they buy a rare coin, and when they sell rare coin.

Posted by serge, December 4, 2009. Post has 0 comments.
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Wedding of Charles & Diana coins

One of the most important events of the 20th century was Prince Charles and Diana Frensis Spencer wedding. It has been connected with the big expectations. Prince Charles, the applicant number one on a royal throne, has received chance to get successors that guaranteed continuation of dynasty Winsors. Diana Frensis Spenser, the daughter of the viscount and viscountess Oltorp became the bride of the prince. Wedding of Prince Charles and Diana Spenser has managed to the British treasury in 600 thousand pounds sterling Also it became the most expensive in the British history. In honour of wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spenser London mint made a memorable coin with face value one crone.

England 1 crone 1981. Princess Diana and Prince Charles.

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Posted by serge, November 9, 2009. Post has 0 comments.
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Nine-year-old coin designer

Florence Jackson (9 year old girl, Bristol) has become the first child to design a British coin: her drawing of the high jump, marking the 2012 Olympic Games in London, was chosen as the winning entry out of 17,000 in a Blue Peter competition (a long-running BBC television program for children).

Olympic gold medal winner, Denise Lewis, and her high-jump design makes history on the reverse of this new 50p coin, which also features the 2012 logo!

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Posted by serge, October 17, 2009. Post has 0 comments.
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Have you got a 20p worth £50 in your pocket?

The Royal Mint of the United Kingdom produced in error about 200,000 coins without a date. They are the first undated British coins to enter circulation for more than 330 years.

The 20p coin minted in error with no date. Photograph: Watershed/PA

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Posted by serge, June 30, 2009. Post has 4 comments.
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In God We Trust

Today, 22-th April, but in 1864 – The U.S. Congress passed the Coinage Act, authorizing the minting of a two-cent coin, the first U.S. coin to bear the phrase "In God We Trust".

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Posted by serge, April 22, 2009. Post has 0 comments.
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