What sort of camera you use is really up to you. Many phone cameras these days actually take reasonably good coin photos - although you'll want...
If you have the ability to adjust the white-balance of your camera, that would probably cure the "silvering" you're getting with the photos of the...
I ran an antique/used furniture store from the early 70's through the early 90's. Until the widespread accessibility of ATM's and the 24/7...
As it turns out, it was I who corrected their erroneous, original attribution of that follis to Maximinus I - gave them side-by-side images of...
In the "millennium edition" of Roman Coins and Their Values, David Sear refers to the (largest) "crown-size" Alexandrian Provincial leaded bronze...
Roman coins of the era A.D. 379-405 (the latter days of the House of Valentinian) are quite common - at least the Æ's are. Emperors, etc,...
I believe it was Crassus - member of the so-called 1st Triumvirate with J. Caesar and Pompey - who after losing a battle with Persians (or some...
Just a little advice, in case this inspires you (as I hope it may) to go further with ancient coins: when asking for ID help (or even just working...
The postage / S&H on such a purchase, alone, would have been a steal for $1.25, not even including the coin - you could probably say you made a...
That's not one of the most common reverse types. The quality and color of the metal makes it appear to be from the early or joint-reign era,...
I have heard that, in addition to the small stream of restrikes still being made today specifically for sale (as I believe the OC probably was,...
It's a good idea to provide at least a diameter - rounded to the nearest whole mm is fine - (and a weight if possible, but to know the weight is...
I have a really hard time accepting gimmicky NCLT governmental fund raising items like those above as "coins". Although I wouldn't want to be...
The "two-turret" PROVIDENTIAE gate coins date to the mid 320's, it was the run of centenionales which includes the 2-standard GLORIA EXERCITVS...
I'm pretty certain our prehistoric ancestors were perfectly capable of seeing that the moon was a sphere and realizing by association, so must the...
Back in the dark ages (the 1960's, when I was in college) it was possible - pathetically easy, actually - to fool the earliest bill-reading change...
Definitely a Littleton flip-ticket. Littleton had (and may still have for all I know) an "ancient coin of the month club" sort of promotion...
Photos would STILL be instructive. FIFY
Since the Rhaesana coins of the House of Decius seem to be thick on the ground in this misattributed-coin thread, Here's one which wasn't...
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