Of the thousands of coin pics I've done over the years very very few I'd say are so good that I thought I couldn't do it better in some way....
I think this is a solution to the wrong problem. It's very difficult to control sunlight and bend it to your will imo. Why not get a lightbox...
Hey Valentinian, nice score! Gorgeous little provincial (and that's from someone who generally can't stand them) Just a note though that the...
Not sure if they do, maybe in high-profile cases like this, but this is not the service you're paying for when you send it in. Rasiel
Disappointing why? In what way would it be better for the average person for it to be in a museum vs in private hands? If the BM or The Met were...
That definitely does not look like a photo of a coin in slab. I honestly don't think a coin of that caliber would be treated with that kind of...
Ah well, that explains the photo quality LOL
Wow, and a very nice pic too for a newspaper! Usually coins that show up in the media are of awful quality. Anyway, only other ones I was aware of...
I remember seeing this book a few years ago and being impressed by how each imperial authority was related to the others in the dynastic line.......
A bit of a tangent here but did you know that certain states (NY, FL, etc) it's illegal to charge more for credit card purchases? If they do tack...
There's two types of toning. Accretions which (potentially attractively) obscure the coin's surface and that which forms from a chemical reaction...
[ATTACH] Probably this one for me. Soon to have a new owner. Yeah, feelin' the blues Rasiel
Well, call me superhuman then but I work in this field and I can tell when something is off by 1%. You can too. Try putting a 10.1mm peg in a 10mm...
I was wrong about this. A CNC can easily do better than 0.1mm with the right stepper motor. The functional limit is the stylus. The thinnest...
[ATTACH] Scale is the key. A 1% difference is unnoticeable or a gaping error depending on your vantage point. Six inches away a ±.25mm difference...
I agree with this. There is no current tech that can replicate the level of detail from a coin simply by copying the contours of another. A high...
I'm late to the thread as usual but I wanted to add a little to the chemistry side of things. It's incorrect to state that it's impossible for...
The part that you're missing is that rarity is subjective. You can talk about absolute rarity (a mintage of one is undeniably rare) but what most...
I wrote an article about a coin just like this that turned out to have no silver at all. I don't remember the mint however. Rasiel
Here's the coin that proves Romulus received full caesarship. It doesn't get any more in-your-face than this: a medal weighing a whopping 68g...
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