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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 8189841, member: 85693&quot;]I really like those photos - the details certainly come through and the overall effect is for me somehow dramatic, like an old Hollywood headshot.&nbsp; Anyway, I often prefer &quot;art&quot; to &quot;representative.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>Too lazy and cheap to invest in equipment beyond an old digital camera and the free light provided by the sun, I keep experimenting in a desultory way.&nbsp; Recently, I tried a couple of backgrounds at different times of day on this sestertius of Antoninus Pius:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1433636[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1433637[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Antoninus Pius&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Æ Sestertius</b></p><p><b>(155-156 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Rome Mint</b></p><p>[ANTONI]NVS AVG PIVS PP</p><p>IMP II, laureate head right / TR POT | XIX | COS IIII | SC in four lines within laurel wreath.</p><p>RIC 947; BMC 2003; Cohen 998; Sear 4250.</p><p>(21.71 grams / 30 x 29 mm)</p><p>eBay Jan. 2022 Ck</p><p><br /></p><p>If anybody out there knows anything behind the issue of this odd &quot;wreath-n-inscription&quot; type for AP, I&#039;d love to hear about it.&nbsp; Maybe everybody at the mint got tired of the goddess-standing-around type, so they just went with some titles?&nbsp; Nothing seems to be celebrated (VOT, etc.), just the usual titles.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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