November 9, 2009: "Wild, man"

Author:
A Friend to the Firm

Concept:
We’ve looked for ages to find a choice, original Wildman Taler to put in a CRO ad because 1) We figured it would look unbelievably cool, 2) This issue has one of the wackiest motifs seen on any coin of any country or era, and 3) We knew we could come up with a fantastical caption for it.

Such as the play on the infamous ‘Girls gone wild!’ tagline our guest author twisted into a perfectly appropriate, numismatic-theme which filled the bill quite nicely in our admittedly biased view.

Captions that didn’t make the cut:
We didn’t have any brilliant alternative captions, but we did have a spirited internal debate about what to call this item. You see, its actual proper name is a 1611 Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel ‘Wildman’ Taler, Dav-6285. Though of course that was waaaaaay too long to fit in the ad.

So we went with the abridged version to your left incorporating just enough of a description so that our readers would know what the heck they were looking at.