When Septimius Severus used the types at the Emesa mint, the captives wore Parthian hats but the left captive still is the one with hand...
Mine is as green as any bronze in my collection. There is one of these for sale emphasizing the fact that Greek should have used Theos rather...
All his were LB suggesting that he counted his first day in power in August but issued no coins until September or after. The way the Alexandrian...
For Mat and others who prefer piktur larnin to buuk larnin, I offer my 8 illustrated Vocabulary pages covering words I felt useful for the...
Antiochus IV (175-164 BC) AE27 Isis/Eagle These are easily mistaken for Egyptian issues of the Ptolemies. [ATTACH]
I've always been fond of L - ENATOY spelling out the unlucky numeral theta. Earlier there had been a few other spelled out dates for whatever...
Maximianus AK M OVA MAEIMIANOC CEB CEB or Sebastos is Greek for Augustus. Mat's coin ended in K for Caesar. Maximianus was always Augustus -...
Trading is a great idea but it runs into one very big problem. Most of us have all the 'beginner' coins we want so the coins that I might want to...
That is a nice one. Any 'labors' coin other than the lion is special but this big one is really interesting. The big AMK Tarsos coins I have...
At the price of memory now (a terabyte is a lot of photos), I see no reason not to save everything at full size and (under a different file name)...
If you are close to what you want, it is worth postprocessing a bit to correct what you wish. Many cameras are set to overemphasize color...
While it is not anything approaching as sharp as my camera images and would not make large prints, I was surprised at my first try using my cell...
There is a lot of variation on these and I have no idea how to assign them to dates/rulers. I am of the opinion that the 'intact reverse' bias...
I am inclined to accept it as good. It might be good to count dies you can find and see just how odd it is to find a match. Mine is not a match....
I think both are Gallienus. B is Abundentia pouring coins from her cornucopia. They get worse than this (A for example). The one below was mine...
My first digital camera was a Nikon Coolpix 990. I used it to take the photos for Victor Failmezger's book and thought the photos were decent...
Yes, the OP link. The first post asked if a used Sony HX350 would be a good camera for the purpose. Since this and a thousand other models have...
It most certainly could and the why to prove it would require destroying the coin. Prying might be difficult but the whole thing could be mounted...
The suggested camera is not what I would suggest but I do imagine it would take acceptable photos for 99% of the uses people make of coin photos....
I believe using the term brockage here is incorrect but that certainly is a great coin. A brockage happens when a coin is struck normally but...
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