@ycon, your collecting aesthetic and goals are wonderful!
He's doing well :).
Nice advance planning and optimism :D! They are beautiful prints. I particularly like the Roman villa.
Cool! How many of us have one or more of Steve's coins now? A bunch... Here are other images he posted of that coin, in case you like them...
The bumps look like "horn silver" (AgCl). To my knowledge, nothing short of mechanical removal will get that off and mechanical abrasion is a...
While I agree that in most instances and for most applications an iPhone is more than adequate for taking pictures of coins, I think the picture...
:eek:o_O Er, you probably need both hands and your head. Maybe you should just buy a copy stand :D.
The copy stand? I made it after seeing the ridiculous prices for ready-made models. Here's the clamp, ~$12.00...
:wideyed: (drool)
Nice writeup, Mike! I don't have many coins with the Dioscuri but this is my favorite: [IMG] EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius Regnal year 8, CE...
Exactly. Otherwise, it's just a holed ancient coin and a holed modern coin joined by a string, making it look like a wishful story. The little...
Thanks :). I copied it from someone who copied it from someone :D. We each made our templates from scratch. You're welcome to copy the style...
Looks laureate to me. I suspect the seller's weight is off (low).
My Imperial knowledge is lacking so I can't help on the denomination, but I think the obverse is Volusian. After what seems to be VIP, I see...
Definitely a good start, @S. Porter! As Doug said, try manual mode and do some sequences using stepwise adjustments of shutter speed and other...
Nice chunks of Egypt you have there, RL! As for the holed coins, is there any compelling reason to believe the two coins were at some point...
I love it and was the underbidder. Lost my only other target too. Admittedly, I wanted it in part because the reverse looks like a wooden roller...
Unquestionably fake. Wrong weight. Wrong style. Note the strange surface (casting bubbles and casting pearls) and the casting seam.
You could read it online and see if it is something you'd like to have in paper form. https://archive.org/details/onchronological01headgoog or...
Head (1844-1914) was head of the British Museum's Department of Coins and authored many books and papers. While it's always nice to have a...
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