Xhorxh Asmour
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Post by Xhorxh Asmour on Oct 15, 2007 14:18:50 GMT -6
As President of the Royal Bank & Post, I invite everyone (especially the College of Arms guys) alive, dead and living-dead to create designs for our currency and stamps, to be issued in the near future.
All designs must be in .jpg format.
Please send your contributions by email to:
dreck0612@yahoo.com
Let your imagination fly!
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Sir C. M. Siervicül
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Post by Sir C. M. Siervicül on Oct 15, 2007 15:48:02 GMT -6
As President of the Royal Bank & Post, I invite everyone (especially the College of Arms guys) alive, dead and living-dead to create designs for our currency and stamps, to be issued in the near future. All designs must be in .jpg format. Please send your contributions by email to: dreck0612@yahoo.com Let your imagination fly! I have some ideas for stamp designs. Not the best with the graphic arts, though, so might ideas might be best as fodder for someone else's Photoshop/Illustrator/etc. talents. I have a plan for 3-4 sheets of stamps with multiple related designs on each sheet, that together would make (I think) a fairly attractive collector's set. |
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Sir C. M. Siervicül
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Post by Sir C. M. Siervicül on Oct 15, 2007 16:57:23 GMT -6
All designs must be in .jpg format. Oh yeah... for maximum quality, I would encourage using a non-lossy format. Like BMP or PNG. Or even a vector-based format. And the higher the resolution the better. We don't want any pixellation or jaggies on our banknotes or stamps. I would assume a resolution of 600dpi for stamps, for example. Of course, you can design using PNG, vector graphics, etc., but still produce a lower-res JPG version to send to Xhorxh for evaluation. |
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Sir X. Pol Briga
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Post by Sir X. Pol Briga on Oct 16, 2007 1:42:00 GMT -6
These are not designs per se, but treatments of the reverse of coins that could be issued in argent/or (or similar looking metals). The graphics are portrayed here in .jpg, but can be exported from CorelDraw in vector format such as .eps or output at a very high resolution non lossy image as required.   |
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Xhorxh Asmour
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Post by Xhorxh Asmour on Oct 16, 2007 7:59:02 GMT -6
Beauuuutiful design, S-reu Brigâ! Thanx a lot for your contribution.
Thanx, S-reu Siervicül, for your multiple interest in things Talossan (you're undeniably our Jack of All Trades).
You two are good examples to be followed!
Let's get to work, everybody!
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Sir C. M. Siervicül
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Post by Sir C. M. Siervicül on Oct 16, 2007 9:58:52 GMT -6
These are not designs per se, but treatments of the reverse of coins that could be issued in argent/or (or similar looking metals). I think these would make a very attractive design for the reverse of our coins. As long as we can fit all the other information we need on the other side. |
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Sir X. Pol Briga
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Post by Sir X. Pol Briga on Oct 16, 2007 15:40:28 GMT -6
One possible obverse for a 1 Louis Coin (subject to lots of editing I am sure as my language skills maybe wanting)  |
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Post by Dréu Gavárþic'h on Oct 16, 2007 15:54:14 GMT -6
umm... just a though:
King Louis should be on the Louis
King Ben should be on the Ben
Maybe we should make another unit, a John perhaps?
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Sir C. M. Siervicül
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Post by Sir C. M. Siervicül on Oct 16, 2007 17:20:20 GMT -6
King Louis should be on the Louis King Ben should be on the Ben Maybe we should make another unit, a John perhaps? I don't think we should make any use of King Louis's image, out of consideration for the wishes of his parents. Might not be wise to use King Ben's image without his consent, either. Maybe the obverse could have a map of the Kingdom or something like that? That wouldn't require 3D engraving, so the minting costs would be lower. It'd be nice to include our URL, too, so that anyone who comes across one of our coins can find us easily. |
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Cjara B
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Post by Cjara B on Oct 16, 2007 18:13:32 GMT -6
AHAHAHHHAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHHAH (if some one wants to cart me off for laughing maniacally now would be your chance,) HAHAHAHAHHAHHHAHHAHA
Good for you starting a board on this again.... I may start again any minuet now
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Sir C. M. Siervicül
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Post by Sir C. M. Siervicül on Oct 16, 2007 18:31:09 GMT -6
Good for you starting a board on this again.... I may start again any minuet now I like minuets. Bach wrote a lovely one.  |
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Hooligan
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Post by Hooligan on Oct 16, 2007 22:15:50 GMT -6
Just to correct an earlier post, our smallest unit of currency is no longer named the ben. The name of that unit of currency was changed in the Newer Numismatic Naming Act (on the insistence of so-called "Old Guarders", if you will) to the "bent". In fact, this change was the only significant change from the "New Numismatic Naming Act" (which failed of passage, due to the wish of some legislators to rename the ben) and the "Newer" one.
Hooligan
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Sir X. Pol Briga
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Post by Sir X. Pol Briga on Oct 16, 2007 22:56:04 GMT -6
Maybe the obverse could have a map of the Kingdom or something like that? That wouldn't require 3D engraving, so the minting costs would be lower. It'd be nice to include our URL, too, so that anyone who comes across one of our coins can find us easily. Another option for "Minting" would be to issue these on custom casino style chips, which in turn could be in full color rather than just a metal, or could be colored to look like a metial. Those would likely run around 50 cents each at a quantity of 500. |
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Sir C. M. Siervicül
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Post by Sir C. M. Siervicül on Oct 16, 2007 23:09:59 GMT -6
Another option for "Minting" would be to issue these on custom casino style chips, which in turn could be in full color rather than just a metal, or could be colored to look like a metial. Those would likely run around 50 cents each at a quantity of 500. I hope if we go for coins, they're made of metal. Otherwise, better that we should just have some nice paper notes printed up. |
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Sir X. Pol Briga
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Post by Sir X. Pol Briga on Oct 17, 2007 11:31:28 GMT -6
Here's a treatment using an outline of the Greater Talossan Area  |
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