Photographed this with my cellular phone camera at midday in natural sunlight. It much better captures the rich toning of this silvered follis. Post anything you feel relevant. My photo: Seller's photo: Maximinus II Daza, AD 309-313, as Augustus Roman Æ follis; 21.4 mm, 4.88 g, 12 h Antioch, AD 312 Obv: IMP C GAL VAL MAXIMINVS P F AVG, laureate head, right Rev: GENIO AVGVSTI, Genius standing left, modius on head, naked but for chlamys over left shoulder, holding head of Sol and cornucopiae; *|Z //ANT Refs: RIC 164b; Cohen 21; RCV 14840.
Nice one RC. I picked this one up a couple weeks ago Maximinus II A.D. 310- 311, 24mm 7.9gm IMP C GAL VAL MAXIMINVS P F AVG; laureate head right / GENIO EXERCITVS; Genius standing left, modius on head, naked but for chlamys over left shoulder, right holding patera over altar, left cornucopiae; H in right field. In ex. ANT RIC VI Antioch 147c
Lovely pic RC, I'm also a convert to the natural sunlight. The area where I shoot pics indoors just isn't great, and I can never get the lighting "temp" just right or to not glare so much on the coins. Even in the winter I shoot with sunlight through a windowed door. Here are some bronze coins. This is my Maxentius, a recent seller pic, (which is good), vs. sunlight pic. Here are some pics, all of which were taken by my on the same camera. When I first started, indoor, wood table, wood wall right by it, "yellow" bulb, blue flash....what a mess. Here is the new version, taken with sunlight. The coin isn't very pretty, but the pic is pretty good.
I don't know whether this coin of Max II is silvered or not. It has a star on the right field of reverse. Struck in Rome.
Your pic is so much better, I've noticed a tendency for seller's try to show the silvering usually at the expense of beautiful patina's, congrats good pick up.
Nice... I always like when a picture captures a coin's colour accurately. I've gone the opposite the direction with my coin photography. Since about six months ago, I've stopped trying to take pictures of my coins in sunlight. It was just too frustrating hoping to catch the right light conditions for photography, and in any case, night time is when I'm usually more free to fiddle with my coins and camera . It's still a bit hit and miss, and I have a lot of laziness to overcome regarding getting a proper lighting set up, but so far I'm fairly pleased with how most of my pictures have been turning out. I was happy with my old natural sunlight pic of this Max II follis, but the actual tone of the silvering is not quite as yellow. These, just taken with no natural lighting, show the colour of the coin and its general look more accurately.
I've also focused on capturing the actual color of the coin, taken with my google pixel phone, as opposed to more balck-and-white shots. Here's a Maximinus Daia in my collection.
If you are close to what you want, it is worth postprocessing a bit to correct what you wish. Many cameras are set to overemphasize color saturation so look more natural with a bit less. I have not seen the coin but the image below has a bit less yellow saturation. Better? Worse? In between?
These are the only Maximinus II that I have: RI Maximinus II Daia 305-308 CE Folles AE30 Trier mint Genius-Serapis stndg RI Maximinus II Daia 305-308 CE AE20 Genius stndg bust of Sol cornu star H RIC IV 164b
Close enough such that the difference wouldn’t bother me. My bigger issue with a lot of my older photos is that I resized and saved them in too small a size. Okay for my screen back then, but clearly too small now. Maybe I should save my current photos at least 1.5 times what I need them to be now looking forward to my next screen!
At the price of memory now (a terabyte is a lot of photos), I see no reason not to save everything at full size and (under a different file name) the size you want for current use. I have several thousand coin images saved in this way with full realization that 99% of the large ones will never be seen again. I save RAW files for my non coin images so I could go back and reprocess them but only JPG's for coins.
