These guys like their curls combed forward. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Another funky Ecuadorian fellow on a coin. [ATTACH] This guy was proud of his part. [ATTACH] This is quite the 'stach and goatee combo. [ATTACH]
He looks like a Dead Head. Peace man.
Spend enough time photographing coins and you start to realize that numismatics doubles as an accidental barbershop archive of the elite. For...
I picked this up a few months ago, before the silver price went ballistic. It's a New Orleans Morgan with some nice colour. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
My references are from Charlton Catalogues and on line but I image there are books devoted to this. The Wikipedia page about Blacksmith tokens...
They did, circulating with many other unofficially issued tokens, but more to the point of wear, they were evasion currency, intentionally...
Yes, but like most of them, this one wasn't made by a blacksmith. The term “blacksmith token” comes from an 1885 article by R.W. McLachlan, where...
Nothing in-depth today. Had too many other coins to photograph this weekend.
Today's share is the anonymous Bust & Harp token I had the pleasure of photographing yesterday. It's a quietly fascinating survivor from Lower...
No research paper. Just a new coin for my collection and a blog post for my website.
I lightened the RAW file for this image to better see the area in question. [ATTACH] It looks like something is melted onto it.
A relatively new addition to my collection, this electrum coin of Mytilene, a one-sixth stater, called hektai in Greek, is one that quickly pulled...
This crabby little tetradrachm has been pinching since 285-258 BCE. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I know what you mean. I was photographing some ancient Chinese coins from the Royal Ontario Museum's collection, and one Ban Liang had VICTORIA...
I know. I've seen dozens of these over the years, but this one was such a camera-friendly specimen that I finally took the time to look into it. I...
The 1816 Austrian One Kreuzer I’ve been spending some time lately researching one of the most ubiquitous, yet historically dense, copper coins of...
Can you post an example? It will be easier to determine the problem.
While cameras still perform this function, most consumers find such knowledge largely useless in the digital age of algorithms and instant review....
I'd love to see a finished shot taken with the setup- two lights above and one below the glass. I'm curious how all of that interreacts with the...
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