I don't see the practice as a substitute for a coin purse but for carrying one or two coins for a purpose like paying the miller in this example....
Excellent photo, Z.
As a beginning, try shooting the photo without light directly on the coin. Either bounce a lot of light around the room (I shoot in a closet for...
I prefer the light from a much higher position, much less directional and much more diffuse. As it is the light is harsh raking across the...
Of all specialties, Byzantine is one OCD complete freaks should avoid. There are way too many unique coins that you will never see let alone own....
I'm no dentist but I play one on Coin Talk. Can you see tooth marks on the obverse of this Athenian obol? Fantasy, perhaps, but fun.[ATTACH]
Those new here may not remember last year when I recommended the book Fun While It Lasted by Bruce McNall. I did not and do not suggest you buy a...
It seems a nice coin but not one I have studied. I hope you will be happy together for many decades.
Included in the numbers of ancient coin dealers I have known have been some of the finest gentlemen one could ever hope to meet. On occasion we...
Someone may want to do full research on this one but I doubt many of us can appreciate just how big a deal putting Christ on the coins was in that...
Christ first appeared under Justinian II 685-695 AD but I do not have that one. http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1444441 My earliest is...
It seems to me that we have been seeing a lot more imitative Republicans lately. I've always seen fourrees but I'm talking about really odd style...
Those who may not want to spend the money for Photoshop can get a good Freeware Focus Stacking program called CombineZ. Certainly diffraction...
Here are Trier and Siscia. I lack Arles. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I really wish CT had a way to tell what coins I have uploaded before and could link to again from their space. Then it might be possible to show...
While type and letter shield are strange enough, the concept of placing the mintmark scattered randomly as it an afterthought (" We gotta put it...
Phrygian hat or helmet should bend over forward. The OP is certainly brimmed. I suspect there are many other minor variations on these. Few...
I suspect modern eye see a soldier leading a child but ancient eye accepted the larger figure as just more powerful than the small one. Someone...
The average modern collector would never buy an even slightly cleaned coin but so many come to ancients and hear that all coins are cleaned (true)...
I do not recall seeing the Probus or a stacked mintmark of any type.
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