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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 4905667, member: 99456&quot;]Congrats on an excellent coin - I certainly couldn&#039;t have guessed from the seller&#039;s photo.&nbsp; As I work on my photography skills, decent equipment certainly makes a difference, but lighting and focus seem to me to be bigger factors.&nbsp; Both of these photos are mine - which coin would you buy first?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1183511[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1183510[/ATTACH]<b>Plautilla, wife of Caracalla</b>, 202-205 AD, AR denarius, struck 204 AD</p><p><b>Obv: </b>PLAVTILLA AVGUSTA, bust of Plautilla, hair firmly waved and drawn down on neck, draped, right</p><p><b>Rev:</b> VENVS ICTRIX, Venus, naked to waist, standing left, holding apple in extended right hand and palm in left hand, resting left elbow on shield; at feet, left, Cupid holding <strike>his head in his hands</strike> a helmet</p><p><b>Ref: </b>RIC IV <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.4.crl.369_denarius" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.4.crl.369_denarius" rel="nofollow">369 (Caracalla)</a></p><p><br /></p><p>From the overlap of science and art, a neurobiology illustration of <a href="https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1906/cajal/biographical/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1906/cajal/biographical/" rel="nofollow">Santiago Ramón y Cajal</a> (1852-1934), Nobel Prize in 1906 in Physiology or Medicine with Camillo Golgi:</p><p><img src="https://www.americanscientist.org/sites/americanscientist.org/files/2017-10-06-timblin-5-natural.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><a href="https://www.americanscientist.org/blog/science-culture/neuroscience-as-neuroart" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.americanscientist.org/blog/science-culture/neuroscience-as-neuroart" rel="nofollow"><font size="3">Dianne Timblin, Neuroscience as Neuroart, American Scientist, January 26, 2018</font></a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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