Actually, his name in English could be Joe Green, at the extremely informal level, but I doubt that he would have appreciated that, who knows!
Yup, aka Giuseppe Verdi.
Thank you. The coin is not in the best of shape: edge splits, horn silver deposits and cleaning, but the portrait is in fine style and the...
Thanks for the heads up! I ordered a bottle yesterday. Actually, when I first saw the name Verdicare, I thought it was for a rest home for...
That's a very nice coin to start your Syracuse collection. It is hard to find other contemporary coinage with such artistry in just about all...
Very nice! That single assayer date is much rarer than 1825.
Beautiful doubloon!
Yes, Photoshop has a shake reduction tool, which can be selected in automatic mode or manually. I've never reached absolute sharpness. Perhaps...
I got around to photographing my Potosi, Bolivia 8 reales, Ferdinand VII, assayer J. This is the rare single assayer for 1825. The double...
Your photos are pretty good, actually. Here is your first photo that I edited with Photoshop haze reduction tool for the entire image, and shake...
Because, according to Wikipedia, crushing the shell yielded the famous Phoenician royal purple color, which made the cloth dyed in this color so...
I have found using flash is a trade off with by SLR. On the plus side are greater depth definition and faster shutter speed. One the negative...
Nice coin, scraggy beard and all, Donna. This is my lone Septimius Severus tetradrachm, via Roma. All of his tetradrachms are scarce to rare,...
I've noticed that the pop-up ads at the bottom of the screen, operated through Google Ads, by the way, appears on my screen when I open the CT,...
So it is! Thanks!
I was busy taking snaps of some coins, partly to get away from all of the depressing and partly because I really need to photograph the coins and...
Yes! The dolphins also are a reference back to the coinage of Syracuse, I think. It is a very classy and astronomically expensive coin.
Thank you, Al. The quality of his and other emperor portraits vary widely. The portrait on the sestertius has a very natural appearance to it.
That book has beautiful photos of some phenomenal coins!
Those $50 commemorative slugs have a lot of sex appeal, especially the octagonal Pan-Pac coin. There is a round flan that is valued lower, but I...
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