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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1788235, member: 42773&quot;]Yup. Here&#039;s the auction. I won another coin from the guy, and he refunded the shipping fees on both...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Aurelian-antoninianus-22-mm-3-44-g-very-nice-ef-condition-/121171534521?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&amp;rt=nc&amp;nma=true&amp;si=652jvrHPz9t3%252FSdI1ZLmpuYVgJA%253D&amp;orig_cvip=true&amp;ssPageName=STRK%3AMEWNX%3AIT" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Aurelian-antoninianus-22-mm-3-44-g-very-nice-ef-condition-/121171534521?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&amp;rt=nc&amp;nma=true&amp;si=652jvrHPz9t3%252FSdI1ZLmpuYVgJA%253D&amp;orig_cvip=true&amp;ssPageName=STRK%3AMEWNX%3AIT" rel="nofollow">eBay</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I suppose I still haven&#039;t decided what I want from photographs. Do I want an accurate depiction of the coin? Or do I want to tweak the image to the point where you can comfortably see all the details? - in other words, not an image of the actual coin, but a graphic. This piece is very dark, and my pic represents it faithfully, but perhaps that&#039;s not the way to go?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Here&#039;s the same image with an adjustment to the luminosity curve and saturation. Better?...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s11.postimg.org/n0rguum1v/luminosity2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Maybe not a thousand, but a handful is nice. I&#039;ve seen quite a few Ants of Aurelian that have uneven strikes - great portraits and weak reverses. This one possesses both artistic engraving, in my opinion, and a strong strike on both sides. I find it quite appealing.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I don&#039;t know enough about the series to answer your questions, but I have one of my own: is the swimming mammal mintmark a whale or dophin? ERIC has it as a dolphin...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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