The closest planet to the Sun, Mercury is a tricky one: it rotates on its axis exactly three times for every two revolutions it makes around the Sun.
Its angular orbital velocity sometimes equals, sometimes exceeds its angular rotational velocity.
Therefore, an observer on its surface would see one day every two (Mercury) years and would see the Sun sometimes apparently in motion, sometimes apparently still, sometimes apparently moving in a retrograde direction.
It was named after the Roman patron god of financial gain, commerce, eloquence (and thus poetry), messages, communication (including divination), travelers, boundaries, luck, trickery and thieves. Why on the Olympus not lawyers, then?
At least it's the planet and patron god of my Zodiac sign, Gemini!
Mercury was often depicted with a winged Phrygian cap, so when in the USA a ten-cent coin designed by Adolph Weinman as the "Winged Liberty Head dime" was struck (1916 to 1945), it was confused with the Roman god thus gaining its common name of "Mercury dime" (source: Wikipedia)
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@tigerdreamer Actually, it's quite easy with a light tent (also a self made one, like a white paper cup or a cardboard cone, the important is that the size matches your macro lens minimum focusing distance. Cover the coin with the white "teepee", cut a hole on top the size of your front lens, put one light each side and that's done!
@northy Too kind of you! But much appreciated, you know how much I love your work!
@houser934 Thanks, yes actually it was just fun!
@summerfield Sooner or later I will be the world's emperor and then... ;-)
@tigerdreamer Thank you! I need to admit that I used creative commons shots for this one (apart my self portrait, obviously... ;-))
@kerosene hahaha yes, I can credit myself only of the blending, this time!
@kali66 ;-)
@tigerdreamer It works with any shiny product: lots of tutorials on the web, however!