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We wanted to take an opportunity to update our blog for Chautauqua Silver Works. Which is located in Western New York, where it was founded by Ron Kinney. Many of his early designs are already sold out. His current designs can be purchased directly from him through email at dlanor50@hotmail.com. Unfortunately he is only selling within the USA, but for all the Canadian and U.K. Customers please reach out to us and we will try to arrange something.
Ron is a very prolific coin designer making over 10 unique designs since 2013. This is truly a work of passion for him and it shows. In English, Chautauqua means adult education though art, literature and lectures. His designs are certainly true to that name. They are all beautiful designs and extremely thought-provoking images. They incorporate many intricate and detailed elements, perfectly balanced without appearing busy or cluttered. The following photos are from the long sold out and highly sought after Toxic Series.
These 1 oz silver rounds from North American Mint and Chautauqua Silver Works feature intricate designs on both the obverse and reverse sides. This particular round is a brand-new product that represents the first release in the upcoming “T.I.M.E. Series.” For the purposes of this series, TIME refers to “The Increment Measuring Existence.”
On the obverse face is the image of a number of interlocking gears. As each individual wheel spins in a series of gears, it impacts and turns another gear. This plays out on the obverse, along with the patent date of “1 Dec 1945” for shifting gears, which is engraved above the gears. Along the top and bottom of the outer rim is the engraving “Shifting Gears on the Perception of Time.”
The reverse of the round includes the Chautauqua Silver Works name along the top, with the unique engraving of “One More Ounce – One Less Fetter” on the bottom. In the middle of the round’s bullseye design on this face is the weight, purity, and metal content of the round, along with the word “Bullseye” and the periodic number and symbol for Silver (AG 47).
The first release in the TIME Series of silver rounds featured the image of the moving gears that power a clock. For the second design in the series, the creators have found a design element that anyone can understand at first glance.
An hourglass is often used in reference to the lifespan or remaining time in someone’s life. As a means of torture, captors would often use an hourglass to show their captives just how much time was left in their lives, as indicating in this silver round’s design by the human skull at the base of the hourglass from which the sand pours out into an open grave.
On the obverse side of the 1 oz TIME Series A Grain of Sand Silver Round you’ll find the image of an hourglass in the center of the design, complete with a myriad of different and crucial elements. Atop the hourglass is a baby carriage, indicating early life, while the human skull spews sand into an open grave with a headstone marked “Avery Bawdy,” indicating we all head from life to death with the sands of time.
The reverse side of the round features the marksman scope that serves as common imagery for Chautauqua Silver Works, complete with the periodic symbol and number for silver, and the round’s weight, purity, and metal content.
The Perpetual Silver Round is the third release in the T.I.M.E. Series, which includes a total of five designs in all. For the Perpetual release in the collection you’ll find elements that are often associated with time and connect to the concept of perpetual motion. The windmill, metronome, and pendulum all seem to have limitless movement over time, but all serve as a mere illusion to reality.
In the 1 oz Perpetual Silver Round you’ll find an obverse design that includes some of the elements just mentioned above. There is a windmill in the top of the design field that features a blast of wind pushing it in perpetual motion, while a metronome and pendulum are also featured in the design. Engravings around the edge fields read “Perpetual” along the top and “Time’s Illusion” along the bottom.
The reverse of these rounds features the same design concept as the previous three releases. The bullseye logo of the Chautauqua Silver Works is featured, with the element number and name for silver, “Ag 47” included in the center of that bullseye. The weight, purity, and metal content are also included on this face of the round.
Each of the 1 oz Perpetual Silver Rounds in the T.I.M.E. Series has a proof-like finish. This gives the rounds some of the visual characteristics common to proof coinage, such as frosted finishes on the design features and mirrored background fields.
Mankind has long sought out portals in our existence that could take us to different places. In some cases, these portals take us forward or backward in time to eras, both bygone and futuristic. In other cases, portals were believed to possess the power to not only take us to a different place in time, but an alternative reality to the one we know.
The exact definition of a portal is a “doorway, gate, or other entrance, especially a large or elaborate one.” When some people speak of portals in the sense of time, it is used as a term defining a passageway to another dimension or place in time altogether.
Each of these 1 oz Portal of Existence Silver Rounds comes from North American Mint and Chautauqua Silver Works, and features intricate designs on both the obverse and reverse sides. This particular round is part of a brand-new product lineup that represents the fourth release in the “T.I.M.E. Series.” For the purposes of this series, TIME refers to “The Increment Measuring Existence.”
The reverse of the round includes the Chautauqua Silver Works name along the top, with the unique engraving of “One More Ounce – One Less Fetter” on the bottom. In the middle of the round’s bullseye design on this face is the weight, purity, and metal content of the round, along with the word “Bullseye” and the periodic number and symbol for Silver (AG 47).
On the obverse is the unique Portal of Existence Silver Round design. It depicts two portals on the face of the coin, one situated on either side of a large key. In the keyhole of the key’s shape you’ll notice the 3-hour marks on a 12-hour clock, listed in Roman numerals from 12, 3, 6, 9, and back to 12. At the bottom of the design is a keyhole for the key to be inserted into that can turn one way or the other. Engravings feature “Bygone” and “Intended at the bottom, with “Portals of Existence” at the top.
The T.I.M.E. Series from North American Mint and Chautauqua Silver Works concludes with its fifth design, and for this final offering the producers have broken with production history to use the obverse design twice in a “double obverse” striking of the coin.
Round Highlights:
Limited availability of TIME – EMIT design silver
Double-obverse striking has two twists on the same design.
The word “time” is what is known as a palindrome. A palindrome is a word, phrase, or sequence that reads exactly the same backward as it does forward. For the final release of the T.I.M.E. Series you get the TIME – EMIT silver round, which pays homage to the status of the word as a palindrome.
On one side of this double-obverse striking, you’ll find the image of clock gears and the hands of time moving around a clock face that has each hour marked with Roman numerals. Background imagery in the design includes that of a sun and moon in the upper quadrant, while a factory and gears are in the bottom. Engravings on this side include “The Increment Measuring Existence,” as well as the silver works name, purity, metal content, and weight of the round.
Flip it over and you’ll find a similar, yet slightly altered design. Instead of Roman numerals, the hour marks are denoted using standard English-language numbering. The hands of time are featured, along with a depiction of the planet Earth and spacecraft speeding away in the upper quadrant, while the bottom features a different view of the celestial body we call home. Engravings on this side include “Existence Measured in Theory” at the bottom, with “EMIT” at the top.
All 1 oz TIME – EMIT Silver Rounds from the T.I.M.E. Series ship inside of an AirTite plastic capsule for protection, which itself is kept within a pouch for added protection during shipping. These rounds do not include COAs, but do have edge lettering denoting their production number.
Additionally, each silver round has proof-like finish. This gives the rounds some of the visual characteristics common to proof coinage, such as frosted finishes on the design features and mirrored background fields.
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The Sacred Protocol
by Hylton H Smith (September 21, 2012)
The Sacred Protocol is the first volume in the Evilution Series. It is an alternate reality crime thriller. Two pivotal events in history have a very different outcome. The first is the Spanish Armada. The story swiftly moves to the all-embracing Iberian Republic in 2016, when the internet collapses suddenly. The crumbling of banks and regional governments is prevented by the somewhat miraculous appearance of a new, impregnable system. A slide to dystopian culture is averted. However, after a few years, investigation of a number of mysterious deaths of protestors against the new system is warranted. There appears at first to be little evidence to link the cases, but when progress is made, the deaths take a sinister twist. It becomes a race against time to prevent global implications of unimaginable consequence. The various investigating bodies must reluctantly work together as zero point approaches.