Another fun one (but maybe not quite legal). After I was given this layout, I had to go to a coin shop and buy 4 or 5 silver dollars. The ones from the early 1900's were less expensive than the ones before that so I picked up those "newer" ones.
This is before digital so I took a coping saw with a metal blade and carefully chopped up one of the dollars. Yes, back then we had to actually cut up the coin. Today I would do it all in Photoshop but back then we used a saw. The value seemed to live in the silver content so I didn't really care. Back light is the light of choice for showing embossed detail and the shadows coming forward look awesome.
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