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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4873879, member: 19463"]My summer has been the opposite of [USER=56653]@seth77[/USER] with few coins added (all shown here before) so my coin population is still -40 from the group sold through AMCC2. Of course the new coins are much more expensive than the ones delisted. Much of my time has been spent planning and preparing images for two Zoom talks I have scheduled with coin clubs in places I do not live. Trying to show things that will contribute to the points being made has required more thought than I had considered. It can be hard to explain something that seems obvious to me but not to everyone else.</p><p><br /></p><p>The DC group (ANSW) talk will be on coin photography repeating the one I gave to them about 22 years ago when I was a resident member and officer in the club. On that day I was using a film camera and took a photo for each member of the group who brought one for the purpose. I gave them the prints and only have saved one image which appeared on my website. That coin was the only aureus I had ever touched and it still is. I doubt that will change. I do know people with aurei but getting a camera and coin in the same place is harder today that in was long ago. At the time I was under pressure to make pages load quickly for people who paid by the byte for Internet. I do wish I had saved a larger file of that coin. I did not plan ahead.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #ff4d4d">Marcus Aurelius, <b>AV</b>(gold) <b>Aureus</b>, 161 AD</span></p><p style="text-align: right"><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/maaureus.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><span style="color: #ff4d4d">This website fails to present a balanced overview of ancient coins in one major respect. There is almost no material presented on gold coins. While they exist in reasonably large numbers, these coins remain out of the price range of most collectors including this student and most of the people who have allowed him to photograph their collections for the purpose of illustrating these pages. Our exceptional example (not my coin, to be sure!) shows the standard gold denomination of the early Empire, the Aureus of 25 denarii. Only slightly larger than the silver denarius in diameter, the greater weight of gold places most aurei around 7g or twice the weight of the denarius. The coin was issued just after the death of Antoninus Pius, the time when Marcus Aurelius had first became Augustus. The reverse shows Marcus shaking hands with his co-emperor Lucius Verus promoting concord between the two men sharing power in the Empire. This time of two Augusti was a first for Rome but it was a situation that would be repeated many times over the coming centuries.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000">A sample image from the group made for the ANSW talk on coin Photography is below. I wonder if it will illustrate the point for which it was made to people who be guessing what I am thinking. I will not label it here. Can you tell what it illustrates? This image is larger than most I post here so clicking on it will make it easier to see the point. Should I add 1, 2, 3, 4 to the arrows? </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">[ATTACH=full]1177184[/ATTACH] </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Not buying as many coins has not been cheaper since I did buy a new lens for my camera. I took a few coin photos with it </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">(including both of the large images shown in this post) but find it less appropriate for coins than my old 100mm macro so it will have to earn it's place in my life in other ways.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Taken with a 35mm macro lens (much too close to the coin)</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">[ATTACH=full]1177189[/ATTACH] </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">We are well. I hope all of you are also.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"> </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4873879, member: 19463"]My summer has been the opposite of [USER=56653]@seth77[/USER] with few coins added (all shown here before) so my coin population is still -40 from the group sold through AMCC2. Of course the new coins are much more expensive than the ones delisted. Much of my time has been spent planning and preparing images for two Zoom talks I have scheduled with coin clubs in places I do not live. Trying to show things that will contribute to the points being made has required more thought than I had considered. It can be hard to explain something that seems obvious to me but not to everyone else. The DC group (ANSW) talk will be on coin photography repeating the one I gave to them about 22 years ago when I was a resident member and officer in the club. On that day I was using a film camera and took a photo for each member of the group who brought one for the purpose. I gave them the prints and only have saved one image which appeared on my website. That coin was the only aureus I had ever touched and it still is. I doubt that will change. I do know people with aurei but getting a camera and coin in the same place is harder today that in was long ago. At the time I was under pressure to make pages load quickly for people who paid by the byte for Internet. I do wish I had saved a larger file of that coin. I did not plan ahead. [COLOR=#ff4d4d]Marcus Aurelius, [B]AV[/B](gold) [B]Aureus[/B], 161 AD[/COLOR] [RIGHT][IMG]http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/maaureus.jpg[/IMG][/RIGHT] [COLOR=#ff4d4d]This website fails to present a balanced overview of ancient coins in one major respect. There is almost no material presented on gold coins. While they exist in reasonably large numbers, these coins remain out of the price range of most collectors including this student and most of the people who have allowed him to photograph their collections for the purpose of illustrating these pages. Our exceptional example (not my coin, to be sure!) shows the standard gold denomination of the early Empire, the Aureus of 25 denarii. Only slightly larger than the silver denarius in diameter, the greater weight of gold places most aurei around 7g or twice the weight of the denarius. The coin was issued just after the death of Antoninus Pius, the time when Marcus Aurelius had first became Augustus. The reverse shows Marcus shaking hands with his co-emperor Lucius Verus promoting concord between the two men sharing power in the Empire. This time of two Augusti was a first for Rome but it was a situation that would be repeated many times over the coming centuries.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]A sample image from the group made for the ANSW talk on coin Photography is below. I wonder if it will illustrate the point for which it was made to people who be guessing what I am thinking. I will not label it here. Can you tell what it illustrates? This image is larger than most I post here so clicking on it will make it easier to see the point. Should I add 1, 2, 3, 4 to the arrows? [ATTACH=full]1177184[/ATTACH] Not buying as many coins has not been cheaper since I did buy a new lens for my camera. I took a few coin photos with it [/COLOR][COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)](including both of the large images shown in this post) but find it less appropriate for coins than my old 100mm macro so it will have to earn it's place in my life in other ways.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000] Taken with a 35mm macro lens (much too close to the coin) [ATTACH=full]1177189[/ATTACH] We are well. I hope all of you are also. [/COLOR][/QUOTE]
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