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Shah Khusro II

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Usurper Mehrbandak (Bahram VI) House of Miran (Parthia) struck. AD 590
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Anoob: your new images are outstanding in comparison to the old.

 

I appreciate your compliment, I can same you, yourself have improved and doubled the value of your collection...

 

Mutual Admiration Society

 

The new pic of the Shah Khusro II is excellent AN . I like the old Mehrbandak pic better than the new one though.

 

Thanks! but Why?

 

I think it shows more detail and luster better.

 

Not much change, but a nice coin nonetheless:

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TACITUS
Antoninianus
OBVERSE: IMP C M CL TACITVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right
REVERSE: CLEMENTIA TEMP, Tacitus receiving globe from Jupiter, Z in lower centre, XXI in ex.
Struck at Antioch, 275-6 AD
3.2g, 22mm
RIC 210, Z

 

Your photo s are beter then mine, i have a lot of struggeling

 

Thank you. I keep trying to improve.

 

All of you are making me very depressed and jealous---The posted photos all seem to have dramatically improved...although I seem to have the same opinion for the same reasons as Aidan about Mehrbandak, A-noob...

And, Bing, that second photo of Tacitus is absolutely terrific!! I was going to ask you guys if the improvements of your 'New' reshoots all look like the coin you hold in hand---and I'm still wondering that on most of these photos---Do they look as the eye beholds???

Frankly, I only want the reality of the coin to be duplicated, not to have a great photo that masks the flaws or accents the positive beyond what anyone gazing at the coin in person would perceive--- in my humble opinion everything else is smoke and mirrors.

Please feel to PM me when you have a few moments if you would like to share any info about your photo improvements....I could use all the help I can get...

 

Yes, but the question is, which reality? Coins look very different in a room lit with incandescent bulbs than they do in sunlight. They look equally different if you look at them from a foot away as opposed to an inch away with a loupe, not to mention an infinite number of viewing angles.

A photograph is very artificial in a sense, because it only captures a moment in time and a very particular set of circumstances. We all have to choose which sort of reality we like the best in an image.

 

Fixed that for you

 

Reality is that annoying time between sleep and coining.

 

Mikey: I'll try to answer. Most of the re-shoots I have done, I have done with the idea of obtaining a like image of what I see in my "coining" room (read that as my home office). These coins almost never leave that room since no one else I know (outside of you guys and gals here), seem to care at all about them. Once in a blue moon I show one to my wife to which she shrugs. So the short answer is that they do look as close as possible to my "reality".

 

Not quite so green:

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PROBUS
Antoninianus
OBVERSE: IMP PROBVS P F AVG, radiate cuirassed bust right
REVERSE: ADVENTVS AVG, Probus on horseback left, holding sceptre & right hand held high in return salute; at left, under hoof, a captive looks on, R-thunderbolt-Z in ex.
Struck at Rome, 279 AD
3.3g, 21mm
RIC 155

 

Great work, nice here can i show old and new pictures

 

Like someone said before, this is a coin forum. Show all the images you want of your coins (and then some).