Seamus,
I try not to burst into print too often cause I feel deeply about most everything. I want you to know we all envy you the skill you display, the interest you have in going further and more deeply into your passion of using the scroll saw with coins.
Here displayed is a concrete example of how extraordinary basic everyday coins can become features in their own right. Taking away the superfluous and high lighting the good stuff reminds me of the woman in my life the way they prepare to depart from the house, cool, calculated, doing their best to present themselves before others bless them.
When I consider the length of time you have been turning and I know personally you have some fine tutors I take my hat off to you and salute your acheivements.
This coin as others before them became special because you did it like Frank Sinatra before you You Did It Your Way. I will never question your motives but admire your motivation, enjoying your successes has become quite a passtime with me.
Please continue to amaze and delight for a long long time to come you emphasise the same Aussie spirit we enjoy in this country, very alike in many ways possibly because we Aussies are descended from basically the same stock.
All this aside continue to cut,thrust, manouver those coins with precision.
Kind regards Peter.