I've noticed that auction catalogs tend to illustrate coins on a black background when they want a more dramatic effect for a particular coin or...
I would suggest using a white background for all of your pictures of coins. Using Photoshop, you can use the magic wand tool to select the...
Thanks for the response and clarification. Owning the reference material (which I do, plus other references) and some of the coins aren't...
Thanks for posting this site -- its breadth of coins is pretty extensive. I hadn't realized it existed. Is "verifying" a coin as simple as...
Here are a few selected tidbits used to describe each coin and condition, taken from the auction house's catalog: Coin #1: "Very Fine. Uneven...
I thought it would be interesting to see this group's rankings of a number of Julius Caesar / Octavian aureii that have sold at auction in recent...
I would be very surprised to learn that the scratches on coin #3 are due to the original die -- I would think that the Romans would not have...
Since I have no experience with this period of Roman coins, my complete uninformed preference is for coin #4, despite the lack of detail on the...
It certainly wasn't my intention to evoke depression by posting my 12 Caesars denarii! Personally, I find it both inspirational and aspirational...
Thanks for the compliments. One of the major differences between collecting ancients and modern coins, for which I wasn't initially prepared, is...
Although I had collected U.S. coins when I was young, I had left that hobby behind and hadn't collected coins of any type until after I retired in...
The issue of authenticity can be addressed by purchasing from reputable dealers and auction houses that provide guarantees. On the VCoins site,...
This statement about applying modern-coin-grading standards to ancient coins, while it may seem logical to collectors of modern coins, really...
In my personal experience, the most thorough and possibly the fastest way to learn about good prices on ancient coins (and my definition of...
Female goddesses on ancient Roman coins are pretty much limited to depictions on the reverse of those coins, rather than portraits on the obverse...
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