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  1. Omg just seen that the Royal Mint LOTR coin projects the Eye of Sauron when the light hits it and I’m just bowing down to the designers right now. Next level.
    #LOTR #RoyalMint #design

  2. Omg just seen that the Royal Mint LOTR coin projects the Eye of Sauron when the light hits it and I’m just bowing down to the designers right now. Next level.
    #LOTR #RoyalMint #design

  3. Omg just seen that the Royal Mint LOTR coin projects the Eye of Sauron when the light hits it and I’m just bowing down to the designers right now. Next level.
    #LOTR #RoyalMint #design

  4. Omg just seen that the Royal Mint LOTR coin projects the Eye of Sauron when the light hits it and I’m just bowing down to the designers right now. Next level.
    #LOTR #RoyalMint #design

  5. Omg just seen that the Royal Mint LOTR coin projects the Eye of Sauron when the light hits it and I’m just bowing down to the designers right now. Next level.
    #LOTR #RoyalMint #design

  6. SWANSEA: Thousands of old cancer centre X-rays destroyed — but their silver is heading to the Royal Mint

    Thousands of old X-ray films from Swansea’s cancer centre are being destroyed – but not before the silver they contain has been extracted and sold on to the Royal Mint in Llantrisant, where it could end up as Welsh jewellery.

    Staff at the South West Wales Cancer Centre at Singleton Hospital teamed up with specialist metal extraction firm Betts to recover silver from more than 8,000 X-ray films that had passed their retention period and were due for destruction.

    The process generated a rebate of more than £1,000 for the radiotherapy department.

    Anna Iles, interim head of service for radiotherapy, said the films were a legacy of an older era of cancer treatment. “Historically, for radiotherapy treatment we would produce hard copy X-ray films to verify treatment,” she said. “Now it’s all done electronically.”

    The films had originally been stored in the radiotherapy department at Singleton, but as the department expanded the space was needed for other uses.

    They were moved to an external storage facility in Cardiff – at a cost to the health board.

    When Swansea Bay University Health Board later acquired its own storage facility in Llansamlet, space became available at Singleton for the films to be brought back from Cardiff. That repatriation in itself generated a significant saving for the department.

    Of the more than 16,000 X-rays held in storage, around half had passed their retention period and could be lawfully destroyed. Rather than simply disposing of them, the team identified that the films contained recoverable silver and linked up with Betts to extract it.

    The process required careful sign-off before it could go ahead. “We worked closely with colleagues in information governance to get sign off that we could send the X-rays to Betts, where they extracted the silver and we then got a rebate of more than £1,000,” said Iles.

    The story has an additional Welsh twist. While Betts is based in England, the firm works in partnership with the Royal Mint in Llantrisant – meaning the silver recovered from X-rays taken in Swansea could return to Wales in an entirely new form.

    “Betts works in partnership with the Royal Mint, selling the recovered silver, which is then used in the creation of jewellery,” said Iles. “It is quite nice that there is the potential for the silver to come full circle back to Wales.”

    The remaining 8,000 or so films that are still within their retention period will continue to be stored until they too can be lawfully destroyed – at which point the same silver extraction process is expected to be repeated.

    The South West Wales Cancer Centre provides radiotherapy and oncology services for patients across the Swansea Bay University Health Board area and beyond. It is based at Singleton Hospital on the edge of Swansea Bay.

    Swansea Bay University Health Board says the project demonstrates how clinical teams can find creative and sustainable ways to generate savings and reduce waste – while also ensuring sensitive patient information is securely destroyed in the process.

    #jewellery #Radiotherapy #RoyalMint #SingletonHospital #SouthWestWalesCancerCentre #SwanseaUniversityHealthBoard #XRay
  7. Any UK journalists hanging out on Mastodon?

    Anyone want to get on to the mystery of the Royal Mint website?

    Their phone lines have been experiencing 'technical issues' for months, for a while it was impossible to log onto your account, now that's back again, but all the investments seem to have disappeared...

    Hack? DNS attack? Some idiot at their end crashed the servers and now they're having to rebuild it all and work out who had what investments?

    #RoyalMint #UK #Mystery #Journalist

  8. Any UK journalists hanging out on Mastodon?

    Anyone want to get on to the mystery of the Royal Mint website?

    Their phone lines have been experiencing 'technical issues' for months, for a while it was impossible to log onto your account, now that's back again, but all the investments seem to have disappeared...

    Hack? DNS attack? Some idiot at their end crashed the servers and now they're having to rebuild it all and work out who had what investments?

    #RoyalMint #UK #Mystery #Journalist

  9. The winner will be announced today!

    Good luck to everyone else who completed the Treasure Hunt...it was great fun and a good challenge.

    Thank you to the #RoyalMint 👏👏👏

    The Great British Treasure Hunt

    🎉I'm in the top 25% of players to crack Level 5 of The Great British Treasure Hunt!

    🔍Join the Hunt: www.royalmint.com/treasure-hunt

    royalmint.com/treasure-hunt

  10. The winner will be announced today!

    Good luck to everyone else who completed the Treasure Hunt...it was great fun and a good challenge.

    Thank you to the #RoyalMint 👏👏👏

    The Great British Treasure Hunt

    🎉I'm in the top 25% of players to crack Level 5 of The Great British Treasure Hunt!

    🔍Join the Hunt: www.royalmint.com/treasure-hunt

    royalmint.com/treasure-hunt

  11. The winner will be announced today!

    Good luck to everyone else who completed the Treasure Hunt...it was great fun and a good challenge.

    Thank you to the #RoyalMint 👏👏👏

    The Great British Treasure Hunt

    🎉I'm in the top 25% of players to crack Level 5 of The Great British Treasure Hunt!

    🔍Join the Hunt: www.royalmint.com/treasure-hunt

    royalmint.com/treasure-hunt

  12. The winner will be announced today!

    Good luck to everyone else who completed the Treasure Hunt...it was great fun and a good challenge.

    Thank you to the #RoyalMint 👏👏👏

    The Great British Treasure Hunt

    🎉I'm in the top 25% of players to crack Level 5 of The Great British Treasure Hunt!

    🔍Join the Hunt: www.royalmint.com/treasure-hunt

    royalmint.com/treasure-hunt

  13. The winner will be announced today!

    Good luck to everyone else who completed the Treasure Hunt...it was great fun and a good challenge.

    Thank you to the #RoyalMint 👏👏👏

    The Great British Treasure Hunt

    🎉I'm in the top 25% of players to crack Level 5 of The Great British Treasure Hunt!

    🔍Join the Hunt: www.royalmint.com/treasure-hunt

    royalmint.com/treasure-hunt

  14. “The bigger, the better”*…

    Thea Applebaum Licht with a reminder that, when it comes to size, Texas has got nothing on California…

    Between about 1905 and 1915, the United States entered a golden age of postcards. Cheaper and faster mail service, the advent of “divided back” cards (freeing the entire front for images), and improved commercial printing all drove a new mass market for collectible communication. It was at this same moment that a craze for “tall-tale” or “exaggeration” postcards reached its peak. By cutting, collaging, and re-photographing images, artists created out-of-proportion illusions. One of the most popular genres was agricultural goods of fantastic dimensions.

    Nowhere were such postcards more popular than in the western states. There, in the heart of the tough business of agriculture, illustrations of folkloric American abundance were understandable favorites. Pride and place were tied up with the prodigious crops. Supersized fruits and vegetables were often accompanied by brief captions: “How We Do Things at Attica, Wis.”, “The Kind We Raise in Our State”, or “The Kind We Grow in Texas”. Photographers like William “Dad” H. Martin and Alfred Stanley Johnson Jr. captured farmers harvesting furniture-sized onions and stacking corn cobs like timber, fisherman reeling in leviathans, and children sharing canoe-like slices of watermelon.

    In the series of exaggeration postcards [produced in the run-up to the postcard boom, then published during it] collected [here], it is California that takes center stage. Produced by the prolific San Francisco–based publisher Edward H. Mitchell, each card features a single rail car rolling through lush farmland. Aboard are gargantuan, luminous fruits and vegetables: dimpled navel oranges, a dusky bunch of grapes, and mottled walnuts. Placed end-to-end, the cards would make a colorful train crossing California’s fertile valleys. Unlike other, more action-packed “tall-tale” cards — filled with farmers, fisherman, and children for scale — Mitchell’s series is restrained. Sharply illuminated, the colossal cargo lean toward artwork rather than gag. “A Carload of Mammoth Apples”[here], green-yellow and gleaming, could have been plucked from Rene Magritte’s The Son of Man [here].

    Fabulous fruit and vegetables: “Calicornication: Postcards of Giant Produce (1909),” from @publicdomainrev.bsky.social.

    In other art-related news: (very) long-term readers might recall that, back in 2008, (R)D reported that London’s Daily Mail believed that it had tracked him down, and that he is Robin Gunningham. Now as Boing Boing reports:

    Anyone reading Banksy’s Wikipedia article at any point since a famous Mail on Sunday exposé in 2008 would likely get the impression the secretive stenciler is probably Robin Gunningham or Robert Del Naja, artists who came from the Bristol Underground. Reuters, having conducted extensive research into their movements, finds both men present at critical moments, but only one at all of them: an arrest report from New York City puts Gunningham firmly in the frame, and recent public records from Ukraine put it beyond doubt.

    We later unearthed previously undisclosed U.S. court records and police reports. These included a hand-written confession by the artist to a long-ago misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct – a document that revealed, beyond dispute, Banksy’s true identity. … Reuters presented that man with its findings about his identity and detailed questions about his work and career. He didn’t reply. Banksy’s company, Pest Control, said the artist “has decided to say nothing.”

    His long-time lawyer, Mark Stephens, wrote to Reuters that Banksy “does not accept that many of the details contained within your enquiry are correct.” He didn’t elaborate. Without confirming or denying Banksy’s identity, Stephens urged us not to publish this report, saying doing so would violate the artist’s privacy, interfere with his art and put him in danger.

    Del Naja (better known for other work) evidently participates in painting the murals and is perhaps the stencil draftsman (Banksy: “he can actually draw”). Banksy’s former manager, Steve Lazarides, organized a legal name change for Gunningham after the Mail on Sunday item, which successfully ended records for Banksy’s movements under his birth name and stymied researchers—until Reuters figured out the new one by poring through Ukrainian public records on days Del Naja was there. Gunningham used the name David Jones, among the most common in the U.K. If it rings a bell, you might be thinking of another famous British artist was who obliged by his record company to find something more unique.

    * common idiom

    ###

    As we live large, we might spare a thought for Isaac Newton; he died on this date (O.S.) in 1727. A polymath who was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed, Newton was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, author, and inventor. He contributed to and refined the scientific method, and his work is considered the most influential in bringing forth modern science. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), first published in 1687, achieved the first great unification in physics and established classical mechanics.  He also made seminal contributions to optics, and shares credit with the German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for formulating infinitesimal calculus. (Newton developed calculus a couple of years before Leibniz, but published a couple of years after.) Newton spent the last three decades of his life in London, serving as Warden (1696–1699) and Master (1699–1727) of the Royal Mint, a role in which he increased the trustworthiness/accuracy and security of British coinage in a way crucial to the rise of Great Britain as a commercial and colonial power.

    Newton, of course, had a famous relationship with fruit:

    Newton often told the story that he was inspired to formulate his theory of gravitation by watching the fall of an apple from a tree. The story is believed to have passed into popular knowledge after being related by Catherine Barton, Newton’s niece, to Voltaire. Voltaire then wrote in his Essay on Epic Poetry (1727), “Sir Isaac Newton walking in his gardens, had the first thought of his system of gravitation, upon seeing an apple falling from a tree.” – source

    Newton’s apple is thought to have been the green skinned ‘Flower of Kent’ variety.

    Newton’s Tree with Woolsthorpe Manor (where, during the Plague, Newton was staying when he had his insight) behind (source) #apple #art #calculus #culture #currency #EdwardHMitchell #Enlightenment #fruit #gravity #history #humor #IsaacNewton #photography #postcard #Postcards #RoyalMint #Science #scientificRevolution #vegetables
  15. “The bigger, the better”*…

    Thea Applebaum Licht with a reminder that, when it comes to size, Texas has got nothing on California…

    Between about 1905 and 1915, the United States entered a golden age of postcards. Cheaper and faster mail service, the advent of “divided back” cards (freeing the entire front for images), and improved commercial printing all drove a new mass market for collectible communication. It was at this same moment that a craze for “tall-tale” or “exaggeration” postcards reached its peak. By cutting, collaging, and re-photographing images, artists created out-of-proportion illusions. One of the most popular genres was agricultural goods of fantastic dimensions.

    Nowhere were such postcards more popular than in the western states. There, in the heart of the tough business of agriculture, illustrations of folkloric American abundance were understandable favorites. Pride and place were tied up with the prodigious crops. Supersized fruits and vegetables were often accompanied by brief captions: “How We Do Things at Attica, Wis.”, “The Kind We Raise in Our State”, or “The Kind We Grow in Texas”. Photographers like William “Dad” H. Martin and Alfred Stanley Johnson Jr. captured farmers harvesting furniture-sized onions and stacking corn cobs like timber, fisherman reeling in leviathans, and children sharing canoe-like slices of watermelon.

    In the series of exaggeration postcards [produced in the run-up to the postcard boom, then published during it] collected [here], it is California that takes center stage. Produced by the prolific San Francisco–based publisher Edward H. Mitchell, each card features a single rail car rolling through lush farmland. Aboard are gargantuan, luminous fruits and vegetables: dimpled navel oranges, a dusky bunch of grapes, and mottled walnuts. Placed end-to-end, the cards would make a colorful train crossing California’s fertile valleys. Unlike other, more action-packed “tall-tale” cards — filled with farmers, fisherman, and children for scale — Mitchell’s series is restrained. Sharply illuminated, the colossal cargo lean toward artwork rather than gag. “A Carload of Mammoth Apples”[here], green-yellow and gleaming, could have been plucked from Rene Magritte’s The Son of Man [here].

    Fabulous fruit and vegetables: “Calicornication: Postcards of Giant Produce (1909),” from @publicdomainrev.bsky.social.

    In other art-related news: (very) long-term readers might recall that, back in 2008, (R)D reported that London’s Daily Mail believed that it had tracked him down, and that he is Robin Gunningham. Now as Boing Boing reports:

    Anyone reading Banksy’s Wikipedia article at any point since a famous Mail on Sunday exposé in 2008 would likely get the impression the secretive stenciler is probably Robin Gunningham or Robert Del Naja, artists who came from the Bristol Underground. Reuters, having conducted extensive research into their movements, finds both men present at critical moments, but only one at all of them: an arrest report from New York City puts Gunningham firmly in the frame, and recent public records from Ukraine put it beyond doubt.

    We later unearthed previously undisclosed U.S. court records and police reports. These included a hand-written confession by the artist to a long-ago misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct – a document that revealed, beyond dispute, Banksy’s true identity. … Reuters presented that man with its findings about his identity and detailed questions about his work and career. He didn’t reply. Banksy’s company, Pest Control, said the artist “has decided to say nothing.”

    His long-time lawyer, Mark Stephens, wrote to Reuters that Banksy “does not accept that many of the details contained within your enquiry are correct.” He didn’t elaborate. Without confirming or denying Banksy’s identity, Stephens urged us not to publish this report, saying doing so would violate the artist’s privacy, interfere with his art and put him in danger.

    Del Naja (better known for other work) evidently participates in painting the murals and is perhaps the stencil draftsman (Banksy: “he can actually draw”). Banksy’s former manager, Steve Lazarides, organized a legal name change for Gunningham after the Mail on Sunday item, which successfully ended records for Banksy’s movements under his birth name and stymied researchers—until Reuters figured out the new one by poring through Ukrainian public records on days Del Naja was there. Gunningham used the name David Jones, among the most common in the U.K. If it rings a bell, you might be thinking of another famous British artist was who obliged by his record company to find something more unique.

    * common idiom

    ###

    As we live large, we might spare a thought for Isaac Newton; he died on this date (O.S.) in 1727. A polymath who was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed, Newton was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, author, and inventor. He contributed to and refined the scientific method, and his work is considered the most influential in bringing forth modern science. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), first published in 1687, achieved the first great unification in physics and established classical mechanics.  He also made seminal contributions to optics, and shares credit with the German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for formulating infinitesimal calculus. (Newton developed calculus a couple of years before Leibniz, but published a couple of years after.) Newton spent the last three decades of his life in London, serving as Warden (1696–1699) and Master (1699–1727) of the Royal Mint, a role in which he increased the trustworthiness/accuracy and security of British coinage in a way crucial to the rise of Great Britain as a commercial and colonial power.

    Newton, of course, had a famous relationship with fruit:

    Newton often told the story that he was inspired to formulate his theory of gravitation by watching the fall of an apple from a tree. The story is believed to have passed into popular knowledge after being related by Catherine Barton, Newton’s niece, to Voltaire. Voltaire then wrote in his Essay on Epic Poetry (1727), “Sir Isaac Newton walking in his gardens, had the first thought of his system of gravitation, upon seeing an apple falling from a tree.” – source

    Newton’s apple is thought to have been the green skinned ‘Flower of Kent’ variety.

    Newton’s Tree with Woolsthorpe Manor (where, during the Plague, Newton was staying when he had his insight) behind (source) #apple #art #calculus #culture #currency #EdwardHMitchell #Enlightenment #fruit #gravity #history #humor #IsaacNewton #photography #postcard #Postcards #RoyalMint #Science #scientificRevolution #vegetables
  16. 𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

    ✧ brass threepence ✧

    The brass threepence, a twelve-sided coin dated between 1937 and 1970, was the first British coin that was not round. By the mid-1930s, the weight of the bronze penny and its fractions had become an issue for firms that dealt with them in bulk. The silver threepence was unpopular in England due to its small size. The Royal Mint chose a brass twelve-sided three...

    #RoyalMint #England #Wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass_th

  17. 𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

    ✧ brass threepence ✧

    The brass threepence, a twelve-sided coin dated between 1937 and 1970, was the first British coin that was not round. By the mid-1930s, the weight of the bronze penny and its fractions had become an issue for firms that dealt with them in bulk. The silver threepence was unpopular in England due to its small size. The Royal Mint chose a brass twelve-sided three...

    #RoyalMint #England #Wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass_th

  18. 𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

    ✧ brass threepence ✧

    The brass threepence, a twelve-sided coin dated between 1937 and 1970, was the first British coin that was not round. By the mid-1930s, the weight of the bronze penny and its fractions had become an issue for firms that dealt with them in bulk. The silver threepence was unpopular in England due to its small size. The Royal Mint chose a brass twelve-sided three...

    #RoyalMint #England #Wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass_th

  19. 𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

    ✧ brass threepence ✧

    The brass threepence, a twelve-sided coin dated between 1937 and 1970, was the first British coin that was not round. By the mid-1930s, the weight of the bronze penny and its fractions had become an issue for firms that dealt with them in bulk. The silver threepence was unpopular in England due to its small size. The Royal Mint chose a brass twelve-sided three...

    #RoyalMint #England #Wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass_th

  20. 𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

    ✧ brass threepence ✧

    The brass threepence, a twelve-sided coin dated between 1937 and 1970, was the first British coin that was not round. By the mid-1930s, the weight of the bronze penny and its fractions had become an issue for firms that dealt with them in bulk. The silver threepence was unpopular in England due to its small size. The Royal Mint chose a brass twelve-sided three...

    #RoyalMint #England #Wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass_th

  21. 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘀𝗲 𝗥𝗼𝘆𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗶𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗿𝘆 𝗺𝗲𝘁 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗺𝘂𝗻𝘁

    De Britse Royal Mint heeft een speciale munt uitgegeven ter ere van Freddie Mercury. De uitgifte van de nieuwe munt valt samen met het 40-jarig bestaan van het beroemde Live Aid-optreden in 1985.

    rtl.nl/boulevard/artikel/55395

    #Britse #RoyalMint #FreddieMercury

  22. 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘀𝗲 𝗥𝗼𝘆𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗶𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗿𝘆 𝗺𝗲𝘁 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗺𝘂𝗻𝘁

    De Britse Royal Mint heeft een speciale munt uitgegeven ter ere van Freddie Mercury. De uitgifte van de nieuwe munt valt samen met het 40-jarig bestaan van het beroemde Live Aid-optreden in 1985.

    rtl.nl/boulevard/artikel/55395

    #Britse #RoyalMint #FreddieMercury

  23. 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘀𝗲 𝗥𝗼𝘆𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗶𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗿𝘆 𝗺𝗲𝘁 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗺𝘂𝗻𝘁

    De Britse Royal Mint heeft een speciale munt uitgegeven ter ere van Freddie Mercury. De uitgifte van de nieuwe munt valt samen met het 40-jarig bestaan van het beroemde Live Aid-optreden in 1985.

    rtl.nl/boulevard/artikel/55395

    #Britse #RoyalMint #FreddieMercury