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“Speaking of totem poles” As my mother used to say when faced with a comment from out of the blue.

“or worthless ducats that cannot be exchanged for anything meaningful” Some ducats can be exchanged for quite a lot. This is a 4 Ducat Franz Joseph gold coin from my collection

On the next post is my take on a silver proof version of the Florida State US quarter and a really amusing silver Mexican coin.

I’ve got several thousand shots of different coins like that.

Amusing, but about 15 years ago, APMEX, the largest online supplier of precious metal products tried to hire me as their product photographer but I was already employed as a Civil Engineer.

This photo was purchased by a Mexican Publisher for inclusion in a Mexican elementary school level arithmetic text book.

If you look around the perimeter it shows the Mayan counting system. Base 5 apparently but humorously, they assign minor deities to each number.

I’ve got a Mexican contact for trading interesting stuff back and forth.