Describe your light set-up. I suspect the flatness is from having two equal lights from opposite sides. I don't see any advantage of lowering...
Hekatomnos, satrap of Caria, 395-377 BC, AR tetartemorion 0.2g lion / 3/4 head [ATTACH] Next: a 3/4 head larger than this one
My first overstrike was the Julia Domna from the early 1960's but my records from those days don't include exact details. I have shown it here...
Not all Maxentius temples were hexastyle. This tetrastyle example is easy to miss because the staff held by Roma is in line with the two columns...
There are several variations on the snake theme from Nicopolis so mine really don't pertain here but are offered for those who like to see coins....
Denarii of the Alexandria mint: Commodus [ATTACH] Pertinax [ATTACH] Septimius Severus [ATTACH] Julia Domna [ATTACH] Clodius Albinus...
While PeteB rarely posts a coin I would not love to own, that Philip elephant sestertius is really some coin! I'll toss in two of the much more...
I am glad to see your choice of a first coin. Too often, we hear reports of people starting with very ugly coins they will later regret or...
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/halved-sestertius-1-dupondius.50033/ I did not join CT until three months after this thread but I was happy to...
I am glad so many have found a way to better photos with this tool but I still prefer to shoot the coins o the background you want rather than...
Geta, Nikopolis AE assarion / Apollo Sauroktonos [ATTACH] https://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/apollo-sauroctonus Next: a coin whose obverse is...
I have to show two coins for this story. Both are Alexandria mint denarii of Septimius Severus. They were the first two coins of this group I...
This period saw two issues marked with workshop (officina) numbers. Oddly, each used a different system. The Saeculares (lion and friends) used...
Both, definitely, but I collect coins: Greek, Roman, sort-of Greek, sort-of Roman, enemies of the Greeks, enemies of the Romans, people who traded...
Many ancient coins show a figure proportionally large or small often due to different status. How are we to ID a small figure as 'Pigmy' rather...
Augustus, Lepida Celsa, Spain, AE 27, RPC 271 [ATTACH] Next: Spanish bull
Herennius Etruscus / Clasped hands CONCORDIA AVGG Rome mint [ATTACH] This Herennius PRINCIPI IVVEN is rather late as fourrees go. I would seem...
The tip here other than the type mismatch is the relative size of the dots that make the border. These can vary in size from mint to mint and...
Is this your coin or seller's photos? If the latter, I could suspect the two photos are different coins. The reverse reminds me of an earlier...
Castulo half unit [ATTACH] next: bull
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