helena AE3 thessalonica securitas reipublicae

Dougsmit wanted me to have a 3 ancient.
Helena the mother of Constantine!! Wow!

 

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The idea is to encourage you to buy more ancients and fewer whatever else you might collect. Three to three hundred can come more quickly than you realize.

 

Very nice @Shrews1994 Come to the dark side. We have cookies
Very kind of you too @dougsmit

 

What a nice guy!

 

Nice! Coingrats on the early Saturnalia present. A very kind gift.
Didn't Constantius Chlorus (Constantine's pop) leave her due to political disputes? Ie, she was born a dirt poor inn keeper/stable maid (with many salacious tales claiming her much worse) so he left her for a woman with more assets in her treasury than on her person. For none other than Maximians daughter Theodora (whom he would later have boiled alive). Yep. Ya can't write stuff like this.
Here's mine (it's probably my favorite late Roman bronze):


Helena
Augusta, AD 324-328/30. Æ
Follis Heraclea mint, 2nd
officina. Struck AD 329-330.
Diademed and mantled bust
right, wearing necklace /
Securitas standing left,
holding branch; SMHB·. RIC
VII 85

 

Superb coin! Excellent kick-off to an awesome collection, Shrews1994 ! Outstanding provenance from @dougsmit h collection.

 

Maybe that should be a thing, CoinTalk provenances!

 

I still need to collect some ancients, my grand dad did and his old collection has some. Only problem is I am scared knowing me I will get scammed.

 

Lovely Helena! I look forward to watching your collection grow!

 

Here’s a composite image for you.

 

Your pretty tech savvy arent ya @Deacon Ray ?

 

I still need to learn how to do that.

 

And someone called @dougsmit grumpy!

 

Actually, Shrews, I do it in PhotoShop. I realize that everyone does not have that program but I'll be glad to do it for you any time. No charge

 

nice. Yeah, try for 300

 

There is a near clone of Photoshop Elements available to use freely online:
https://pixlr.com/editor/

Learning to use these image editors does take some time and practice. There are oodles of videos online. There are also simpler free photo editing programs.

Welcome to Ancients, @Shrews1994!

 

Isn't that the case with so many things? I wish we could convince people that using picture editors is not cheating. The idea is to make the photo look like the coin but the coin looks different every time we wiggle it in a different light so we have to decide what we can do to represent the coin best and most fairly. A lot of the time and practice needed here will be deciding not only how to use the tools available but deciding which tools are appropriate to use. At a minimum, we can ask photos cropped to eliminate extra background and lighted so you can see the coin. When you want to read something it is OK to turn on a light and use reading glasses as needed.

I wish I could convince myself to learn free editors like Pixlr but I have so many years invested in learning the software I have been using for photos other than coins that I would be doing it just to help people who did not have the ones I use. Any of several dozen editors can do the same things. It is just a matter of learning the language.

 

Here is the excellent tutorial on how to use Pixlr ... thread created by @chrsmat71
It's a quick and easy tutorial that helped me a lot.

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/easy-coin-pic-editing-tutorial-vid.318697/#post-3115281

 

Nice OP coin. Here's my example of the same.