I like coins

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Love the variety!

 

Me too. Nice group shot with modern coins as a foil to the ancient coins. Good composition.

 

A very interesting assortment of coins...

 

Great coins Andrew!
I like cast bronze coins and scale weights. Turns out when you arrange them for photos, the patterns are similar - old to new (top to bottom) and large to small (left to right). One big difference is that a one As weight was 327 grams for a long time and a one As cast bronze coin went on a diet.

 

Great pics.

Wish more CT members would photograph coins with natural backgrounds such as you and I did in this post, coins as they are seen in life. Not with blank white backgrounds and obv rev paired

The modern coins on black felt at right are all Piedforts. Did the ancients make Piedforts?

 

Me too! Nice coins!

 

Absolutely beautiful! I like coins too, and although this is hardly an artistically arrayed or proficiently photographed group, here are all the Roman Republican coins I presently own, in their natural habitat -- the tray I keep them in. The substantial majority showing the reverse, but a few with the obverse facing up.

Clicking on the photo should enlarge the image enough to be able to see what all the different coins are. The ones in the bottom rows are darker than they appear in real life (and the ones in the top rows are a bit lighter than in reality); I don't have a light that extends over all of them equally.

 

Sorry I offended. I suggest you Ignore me.

 

I suspect that was intended as an insult, and if so I don't get why you felt the need. Sorry if my photo of my coins doesn't meet your exalted standards; it's the best I could do, and at least they're in focus. I like it, as an array of my coins without any artistic pretensions, or any intention of being "useful." What I said about enlarging the photo was intended to be helpful. Who cares if you have a use for one-sided group photos? Not I! I've posted individual photos of every one of these on this site, with both sides, identifying them more precisely (and lengthily!) than most people do. I simply didn't want to take the time today to turn them all over and photograph the other side and then turn them back again. I'm the last person who deserves criticism here for not being "useful."

You're very knowledgeable and helpful, but you can be remarkably rude at times. Maybe you think being a crotchety old man is cute. It's not. And I know you have a penchant for deleting your posts that people call out for being rude, in lieu of apologizing, but there's no point doing so this time. I won't forget.

 

All the coins are uniface with blank reverses.

Seriously tho, as a host of a website http://andrewmccabe.ancients.info/ and photo resource https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahala_rome/collections/72157632262977714/ with thousands of two sided photos and having about 5 million views to date, where I routinely photograph 100% of the coins (two sided) in my collection, and also document the collections of others without online collections, and museum displays, it's kinda eyebrow raising to be criticised as "no use" for posting 1 photo of nice coins without comment.

The "use" is beauty

 

My aes grave collection

 

It's how I imagine "buried treasure" should look!

 

Wow, a great photo of some amazing coins

 

I like all kind of coin photos, double-sided or not and find many inspirational. I believe both types have their purposes and uses.

 

Btw, Donna that's an awesome tray. I ordered myself a little coin cabinet before Christmas but gonna have to wait untill Mars as it needs to be made.

 

Here is a group shot I did for fun. The contrasting colors add interest to me.



John

 

Beautiful!

 

Mars the month, the planet, or the god?!

I agree with you about liking all sorts of coin photos. Still, I really should add the following disclaimer to the photo I posted: "This photo is not intended to serve any educational purpose, but is merely a view of one side of a group of coins, provided for your viewing pleasure, if any, with no guarantees whatsoever. And to give you an idea of what I see whenever I look at that tray. Difficult as it may be to believe, I do not turn all the coins over and then back again every time I look at it!"

 

Now following you on Twitter... thanks for that!