Ancient Coin Purchased by Mistake

You too are an art school grad—Awesome! I get most images from Wikipedia and I do a credit line—most of the time. I also subscribe to Alamy Stock Photos. Many of my images and backgrounds with parchment pages etc. are serving double duty—I created them originally for my church. They run slides on a large screen at each end of the Sanctuary before the service starts on Sundays and Wednesday Evening Prayer Services. You would be surprised how much graphics the church requires. Slides, posters, flyers, buttons, certificates, website graphics and so on.

 

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Cut from the same cloth! (mines probably just not quite as bright)

I'll have to check out Wiki for more images!

Early in my career I did some pro bono collateral print design and web design for a church in the St. Paul area and their non-profit wings, so I know exactly what you're talking about!

 

The way that I interpret the Fair Usage Policy is: Images may be sampled for commentary, criticism, and parody. The actual policy uses the word Transformative use which is a rather broad term. What we're doing here is non-commercial, non-profit, educational, commentary with quite a bit of parody thrown in. After all, this forum is a comment site. It's all about commentary.

 

Awesome mistake, Deacon Ray!

I used to do Powerpoints for the church I used to attend. We didn't cover much of PowerPoint when I was in school. So they were spectacularly boring and plain.

Erin

 

Nice mistake!

 

I'm sure they were fine, Erin. They were what your church needed and you were willing to serve. Well done, my friend!

 

Thanks Deacon Ray! I appreciate your words.

Erin

 

I also very much appreciate the lovely graphic.

My method with photoshop is fairly similar, fairly foolproof and gives a file that can be inserted with Word to any coloured page.

1. Take a photo of the coin against a background colour that it different to the colour of the coin.
2. Open in Photoshop.
3. Right-click the image in the left hand Layers panel and select “Layer from background”.
4. Select the Magic Wand Tool from the left panel, select the background and click “delete” on keyboard.
5. To save click “File/Save for Web.../Save/your chosen file name.

This will save it to a png file that can be inserted to a coloured page (when inserting remember to change “all pictures to "all files” (insert/picture/all files).

All the best,
Col

 

I hope you find and gather all that you aim for Deacon, salut!

 

By mistake, huh ?

The following is taken from "How to get rid of your consciousness in one step" :

There's probably a Jiminy Cricket of some sort inside everyone of us telling us (unconsciously or not) what to do and how to behave when we see a coin we shouldn't buy coming up for sale....and we buy it, and that's it !

Well done @Deacon Ray, you're a boss, and that coin will be special to you forever !

Q

 

I may have another one to add to your collection if interested.

 

Thank you for that, @Col Davidson ! Your method of photographing the coin against a colored background is a great idea. That would definitely make it easier to separate the coin image to a new layer and delete the background (converting the solid background to transparent) I'm going to give that a try.

 

Thank you for the offer, @Coinneseur , but I'll have to pass on this. If you would like to offer it for sale to the other Ancient Coin Forum members I suggest that you post it on the CoinTalk For Sale section at https://www.cointalk.com/forums/for-sale/

Also—tell us about the U.S. Cent in your avatar. Is that a mint defect or damage from some kind of machine while in circulation?

 

I have no idea how it became the way it is. I did post a thread about it to get more information or ideas on how it became the way it was and did try some of the public’s ideas, and still none came out to look the same. What do you think caused it to be the way it is?

 

That's a pretty cool little mistake there DR, and in looks good in with the fancy background as usual!

I purchased this coin by mistake, I wanted a coin of Tiberius II but purchased Maurice Tiberius. I realized it what I did the next day. Oh well, I kept my coin as well. On the list of mistakes I've made, this one ranks about on the bottom.



Maurice Tiberius, regnal year 6 (587/8) AD, Æ half follis

O:Helmeted and cuirassed bust facing, holding globus cruciger. R: Large K between regnal year; cross above; B beneath. Constantinople mint, 22 mm, 5.4 g Sear 497