I agree. On this coin I tend to judge the clarity of the trident over the completeness of the laurel wreath as primary requirement for grade....
Good group! Barbarous also comes in earlier periods. Tiberius (India) [ATTACH] Antoninus Pius [ATTACH] Faustina I [ATTACH] Commodus [ATTACH]...
Macro lenses are the way to go and 100mm is the shortest I would recommend since you want to be far enough from the coin to avoid shadowing it...
I agree. There are quite a few worn asses of Faustina II that I have found apealling. We have to ask if we would prefer one of these to a...
Yes. As I see it, you might write saying that you are interested in the coin but are troubled by xxxxxx on the photo. You can ask him to look at...
I have not studied this coin in depth but my first reaction is not to accept the small figure as a supporter of Maxentius. The style hat on the...
My collection is based on the minority opinion that it is better to see the good points of a coin than to condemn its shortcomings. Of the...
I believe the deification of Victorinus has a lot to do with the influence of his mother and the fact that he was killed not by a rival for the...
My favorite coin appropriate for this thread is a fraction of the issue that gave us that lovely Terence Cheesman coin. While the type is the...
You can always ask but coins worth having and fairly priced probably appealed to more than one person so your delay could mean it sells elsewhere....
Set the camera to manual focus and then see what is sharp at the closest distance setting. That will tell you how far you are from the coin and...
I fail to understand why you don't want to extend the lens. That is what a macro lens is for and you have a good one. I have the old model...
Commodus as [ATTACH] Next: more than two horses but not pulling a vehicle
You have some reason not to accept the traditional date of 26 December? It has been a while since I heard anyone doubt that it was in 211 rather...
It seem there are three things that will guarantee failure when trying to sell something (coins included). First is overpricing mediocre coins as...
I do not have a portrait coin of Demitrios but only an AE13 and a tetradrachm of the same type. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] My tet accurately depicts the...
That link is fine as far as it goes but it does not cover them all. The problem as I see it is that these coins were made to circulate in a...
Rather than editing to correct the lost image links above: This is the demonstration of focus stacking (click to enlarge): [ATTACH] This is just...
Sorry, I forgot that CT can't handle image links at the moment. the image I wanted to show is on this 2003 page about halfway down under...
For over 15 years I had been using a freeware program for focus stacking called CombineZ. During that time the author made several versions with...
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