I'm fairly certain magnifying glasses were in relatively wide use by the time these coins were struck. Optic manufacturing predates our type of...
they had magnifying glasses. At least as early as 500BC, possibly before that. crystals and naturally occurred glasses (lightning striking sand)...
was thasos somewhat isolated when these coins were made? A lot of thasos tets, especially this type from 1st and 2nd century BC, seemed to...
developing color film DIY was pretty much unthinkable for amateurs like me, let alone all these adjustments softwares let us do with just simple...
that flan also lost couple chunks...
also if the pictures weren't toned in post then directional lights seemed to produce more purple fringing (again, microscopically) since the 1st...
agreed to above, directional lights seemed to gave more micro contrast, made the coin looked more 3 dimensional. the ringlight photo has more...
may I ask what was color of the original background you used? was it white? I've noticed photos taken with white backgrounds can be less...
Definitely agree. Not only no evidence of a cistophorus tet minted in alexandria, there were probably very few underweight coins from the egypt...
Your dia, measured from the image is 25mm
another 21st year hadrian tet from alexandria. 22mm diameter and 13.63gr [IMG]
if I may add, for 31mm dia, that coin couldn't had been very thick, and images on both sides are still intact. Worn, but nothing missing....
Well, Bing, 20% is a rather significant weight loss. That's without considering the fact a good hadrian specimens out of alexandria would weight...
Maybe it's thin? That's why I thought this might be a cistophoric tetradrachm. In fact, some were stacked on coins with low relief, and a good...
probably a cistophoric tetradrachm. funny money, worth of 4 drachm but weighted bit more than 3. Since roman tets were 12, 13 grams, their...
I hope he puts it up on auction, and the obverse was at least as good as the reverse. Some people just like busting chops :oops:
You mean OCD was a vice Bing? Virtue or not, if James Clerk Maxwell was OCD, then his boundary equations wouldn't had been published, and we all...
in other report They said on forum that the 2 augustus were from 2 different years, year 26 and 27. Seemed to have same monograms, so they could...
I also asked to see the obverse of the republic denarius, he said he couldn't find the item listing, kinda disappointed :( That's what I had been...
He was very quick to response, and emailed me these 2 photos [IMG] [IMG]
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