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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Terence Cheesman, post: 7546755, member: 86498&quot;]Bronze coins can be very difficult to photograph and often do not react well to being photographed with artificial light. Back in January 2020 at the NYINC I saw this coin at a dealers table</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1302202[/ATTACH]He did not have any other information on the coin other than what it was and price but I was able to track it down to this picture taken of the coin in 2017. Overall this image make the coin look green. However the description states that it is a &quot;mahogany brown&quot;. Most likely the camera was fixed with artificial light. I chose not to buy it at the time but around September of 2020 I contacted the dealer again and got this picture.[ATTACH=full]1302204[/ATTACH]Taken with an I phone hand held again with artificial light.&nbsp;&nbsp; Now the coin has something of a metallic copper tone on the obverse and a very mottled reverse. I remembered I liked the coin and undismayed at the image decided to press on. I could clearly identify this image with that taken in 2017. Finally I got the coin and it looks more like this photo.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1302205[/ATTACH]</p><p>This picture which was taken by my friend W. Hansen was done in natural light on a slightly overcast day with a handheld camera. This is much closer to the actual appearance of the coin. The coin is actually a very dark brown and the mottling near the base of the spear on the reverse is much less pronounced on the actual coin. I do not believe that any of these pictures were meant to deceive.&nbsp; It is just very difficult to take a true and accurate picture of an aes coin.</p><p>Titus Ae Sestertius 72-73 AD Obv, Head right laureate. Rv Mars advancing right with spear at the ready and carrying a trophy over his shoulder RIC 500 (Vespasian) 26.92 grms 32 mm Photo by W. Hansen[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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