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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtisimo, post: 3256679, member: 83845&quot;]<span style="color: #404040"><font size="6"><u><b>On the coin buying front</b></u></font></span></p><p>I would like to keep working on a set of Nerva-Antonine dynasty coins in silver I started this year.&nbsp; I would also like to pick up a few classical Greek coins.&nbsp; Most importantly, I want to hold myself to the tenet that if I don&#039;t have the time to study it, photograph it, and properly catalog it then I shouldn&#039;t be buying it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was doing a mental inventory of my top 10 for 2018 and a full 9 of them are un-photographed (and un-posted!).&nbsp; For 2019 I am thinking less coins... more time to appreciate them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, I am still going to pick up coins I like for general eclectic reasons.&nbsp; Like this new addition from the recent AMCC auction.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]855783[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I also intend to win the lottery (which is hard when you don&#039;t play it) next year so I can get started on my Dekadrachm collection.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #404040"><font size="6"><b><u>On the photography front</u></b></font></span></p><p>I would like to continue experimenting with photographing toned coins.&nbsp; I am getting better at it but I can only get in-hand comparable results in natural sunlight.&nbsp; The problem is the sun only seems to visit Minne&#039;snow&#039;ta for about 30 minutes a day and only during working hours <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie20" alt=":banghead:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie20" alt=":banghead:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie20" alt=":banghead:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>When I try to use my lighting set up the colors bleed together and look almost runny and far less sharp.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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