Description: SLOVENIA - 3€ commemorative euro coin 2014 - 200th. Anniversary of the Birth Photographrer Janez Puhar (uncirculated coin) Janez Avguštin Puhar was born on 26 August 1814 in Kranj. He went to school in Kranj and Ljubljana, and after finishing grammar school he enrolled in a seminary and was ordained a priest in 1838. He served in various parts of Slovenia, and is known for his work in Metlika, Ljubno na Gorenjskem, Bled and Cerklje. In his final year of life he was a curate in Dovje, but he became seriously ill and returned home to Kranj, where he died on 7 August 1864. Even as a student he had a remarkable talent for languages and music, and was also interested in botany, mathematics, physics and chemistry. When reading journals about the latest scientific findings he came across the Daguerreotype, photography on a copper plate with a polished silver surface. Because the process was very expensive, he made use of glass and adapted the chemicals used in the process, thereby discovering the exceptional advantages of glass. He wrote his first report of his experiments with the Daguerreotype in the newspaper Carniolia in 1841. In April 1842 he invented photography on glass, a pioneering contribution to the history of photography. He named the process the “hyalotype” (today also known as the puharotype), or svetlopis in Slovene. Puhar reported his findings in Carniolia, and in Innerösterreichisches Industrie- und Gewerbe Blatt in 1843. After Puhar’s report was published in 1851 by Vienna’s Academy of Sciences, in 1852 the National Academy of Agriculture, Manufacturing and Commerce in Paris awarded him honorary membership and a diploma recognising him as the “inventor of photography on glass”. His photographs were exhibited in London (1851), New York (1852) and Paris (1855). Very few of his original works have been preserved. Apart from a few pictures on glass, there are also some of the photographs on paper that Puhar made by his own process. Shipping and handling: International regular mail - 3.50$ Registered mail is 8.50$. Combined shipping available - each additional coin shipping and handling fee is 1.50$.
Price: 8.98 USD
Location: TARTU
End Time: 2025-02-11T23:08:39.000Z
Shipping Cost: 3.5 USD
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 14 Days
Refund will be given as: Money back or replacement (buyer's choice)
Composition: Alloy: disc 75 Cu 25 Ni / ring 78 Cu 20 Zn 2 Ni
Shape: Round
Amount produced: 150 000
Certification: Uncertified
Weight: 15 g
Colour: Bi-coloured coin
Circulated/Uncirculated: Uncirculated
Denomination: 3 Euro
Designer: Maja Vodlan
Year: 2014
Country: Slovenia
Country/Region of Manufacture: Slovenia
Diameter: 32 mm
Date of issue: 17.11.2014
