Rediscovery

Terrific reshoots guys!!

Perhaps some time this YEAR, I'll catch up to y'all....

 

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Steve, just playing around while I have a few minutes. Whatya think?
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Changed background color for contrast

 

Nice => hey, thanks for the photo-effort, dawg ... but regardless, that coin is actually that colour (so sure, you can smear a bit of lipstick all around it if you want ... but Babe is still comin' home with this guy, my sweet photographer-friend)

... I like you

 

It's a great coin, I just wanted to see the contrast in a dark background. I did not change the color of the coin.

 

Ummm, I don't like the black background as much as you dudes ... but thanks for the effort

=> hey look, a squirrel!!

 

In German it's "noch einmal" or in English "one more time"

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HERENNIA ETRUSCILLA
AR Antoninianus
OBVERSE: HER ETRVSCILLA AVG - Diademed, draped bust right on crescent.
REVERSE: PVDICITIA AVG - Pudicitia, veiled, standing left, with right hand drawing veil from face and holding scepter
Struck at Rome, 249-51 AD
4.82g, 24.13mm
RIC 58b

 

THAT COIN IS FAKE!!! Lol, just kidding, but I rather like the old photo better - it's got more silver sheen.

 

LOL, boy, everyone is getting SPOOKED!

 

Seller's image. I had to look very hard to find the images and they are cropped off, but I will try noch einmal.

 

Bing I feel there is a loss of visual information when you made the transition to the black background. I wrestle with this constantly on coins with ragged flans.

 

same here...black backgrounds have their issues don't they. that crack at 4 o'clock on the obverse looks much larger on the black.

the legend "pops" out much more on the new pic, especially on the obverse.

 

Slow night so I thought I'd show another. Perhaps not a dramatic change, but the color is much more correct.
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VALERIAN I
AE20
OBVERSE: IMP LICI VALERIAN, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right
REVERSE: VCOL AVG TRO, horse grazing right
Struck at Alexandria Troas, 253-60 AD
4.86g, 21mm
SNGCop 191v

 

oh that's much better bing.

 

Wow, it does not even look like the same coin.

 

When you shoot on white, the background automatically adds a little light to the edges. On black you can decide if you want to add a reflector or otherwise send light onto the edges or not. The two below show without (obverse) and with (both sides) a white reflector on the bottom edge. If you prefer something less than this, try a gray reflector or one farther from the coin. These were used in my discussion of the matter on my 2011 page. Even little angle changes make different results. These were not shot together so the light on the coin is not exactly the same.



The effect would be more pronounced if the coin had a rough edge so the gray card might be even better in that case. Too late tonight to try it.

 

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Wow, that is quite a difference.

 

almost like a different coin!

 

The obverse of this Gallienus is nothing to write home about, but this new image of the reverse I think is incredible:

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Another with a great reverse, lousy obverse.

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