May Photo Challenge – May 05

I might have gotten some interesting sky shots today as clouds rolled in, bringing a brief shower late this afternoon. Alas, I wasn’t prepared and it was nearly dark by the time I was in a position to use my camera. So I procrastinated and found myself struggling to find anything suitable to photograph in the dim, fluorescent light at night. Just as happened on the first day, my attention was attracted by shiny objects.

Last June when Lego Lover and I were in Texas, we visited the Science Place in Dallas and paid money to have a penny reformed into this little souvenir. These penny presses seem to be available at many attractions in the US but I don’t recall them from my growing up years.

Considering how many Kiwis live in Perth, I’m surprised more of these aren’t floating around. This New Zealand two dollar coin is about the same size as the Australian one dollar coin. Perhaps it would have been interesting to place them side by side to make the comparison. The opposite sides of both coins, however, are quite similar as they both show the monarch.

I keep stashes of coins sorted into disposable plastic drinking cups, with full intentions of eventually changing the coins for bank notes. Lately, I’ve been a bit slack on the sorting and most have ended up in the same cup.

Our largest coin is the fifty cent piece, a coin that is 12-sided instead of round. I didn’t happen to show one fully in this photo but there is a ten cent piece on top of one here, just near the pressed penny from the US and the smaller (but thicker) Australian two dollar coin.

I’m not sure if it’s a trick of the camera but it looks like one of the coins in the lower left is slightly bent.

While I’m not all that pleased with the quality of the photos this time, it did turn out to be a more interesting exercise than I expected. Hopefully I won’t allow the procrastination bug to take hold again soon.