See if it will leave a mark if you rub the edge on a piece of white paper. Silver coins will not leave a mark. Various other alloys like those...
@TIF I have always liked your Silenos Litra photo a lot. To me it is a toss up between that one and Joe's Clazomenae.
Joe, That is a spectacular photo of one of the most artistic coins there is. :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: Now you just need a Tetradrachm now...
Thanks Doug, I will try some natural lighting combinations and see what happens. My best photos seem to come from using only natural, diffuse...
Thank Doug Smith, he has taught most of us how to do this! Besides being a really nice guy and an ancient coin expert, he is also an authority on...
Here is the old thread: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-coin-photo-setup.278863/
The first photo has more dramatic side lighting. I may try that again using the unencapsulated coin to see how it looks. I usually like even...
Sony a6000 with $30 extender ring set and $30 LED light ring. Mounted on a generic tripod. I posted pictures in a thread last year, maybe I can...
This thread it turning out even better than I hoped! I could sing the praises of each coin and photo, they all deserve their own threads....
Here is the best photo I could get of this Punic Tetradrachm while in a slab. I have no desire to rekindle the whole slab crusade. Just sayin its...
I believe this is the most beautiful coin photo I have taken so far. The coin is not rare, was not expensive, and has some honest wear, but it...
I like the toned appearance of the original photo, it is just not how the coin actually looks. The original photo is also very out of focus.
Not to mention that without any collectors market giving things value beyond their metal content, antiquities and coins get melted and sold as...
I hope political grandstanding: "we are stopping terrorist funding" when few people know it is not true does not overrule our whole legal system...
I am all for stopping illegal trade in anything and for cutting off terrorist funding but that language covers anything more than 100 years old...
This would be devastating to numismatics.
It is amazing the difference small changes in lighting can make. And not just the angle but the "color" of the lighting from different types of...
I agree. I have never seen an ancient of that type. The style of the owl looks wrong too.
@Bing your old images were very good but I like your new ones even better. I upload all my photos (of all kinds) to cloud storage to avoid losing...
I got a chance to re-shoot many of my older coins today using my new camera set up. This is the first one. The coin has a good amount of wear but...
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