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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 6027477, member: 99456&quot;]Nice photo, [USER=83845]@Curtisimo[/USER]. I find coins like yours with bright, partial silvering a challenge to photograph, and I have been trying with only reflected light and long (1.5-2.5s) shutter speeds.&nbsp; In general, I am trying to improve my setup &amp; photos incrementally over time.&nbsp; Even photos from a year ago look bad to me now.&nbsp; Hopefully obvious which is the new photo and which the old with this prutah of <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/it%E2%80%99s-about-time-i-got-agrippa.374514/#post-5954458" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/it%E2%80%99s-about-time-i-got-agrippa.374514/#post-5954458">Herod Agrippa I</a>.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1244394[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1244349[/ATTACH]</p><p>and here&#039;s a favorite torture test coin - with bright, partial silvering, slightly porous surface.&nbsp; Constantius was only about 7 years old when this coin was issued and he was elevated to caesar, 8 November AD 324.&nbsp; This coin also interesting as it seems to be rated r3 in RIC - although the number of examples in RIC online has me questioning that.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1244356[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Constantius II, as Caesar</b>, AD 324-337 Cyzicus, Struck under Constantine I, AD 324-325, he was later Augustus AD 337-361</p><p><b>Obv:</b> FL IVL CONSTANTIVS NOB C, bust of Constantius II, laureate, draped, cuirassed, left</p><p><b>Rev: </b>PROVIDEN-TIAE CAESS, camp gate with two turrets, without doors, with varying number of stone, SMKΔ in exergue (SMK mint mark, Δ officina)</p><p><b>Ref: </b><a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.7.cyz.27" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.7.cyz.27" rel="nofollow">RIC 27</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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