This post was inspired by IVAN's excellent "Still Life" thread I posted this "still life" composite (more of a table spread) after I remembered a bunch more that I didn't include. This shows both sides of the coins (not side by side of course). This isn't all of the coins that I purchased in 2016. It doesn't include Indo-Scythian, Nabataean, Parthian, and Roman. The coins are not all perfectly to scale. Although many of the Judaean coins are small some of the 8 prutot coins of Herod the Great and Mattathias Antigonus are quite a bit larger (closer in size to a US quarter). Please post an image of some of your coins spread out on a table.
I don't have enough space on our cluttered table to post any nice still life (not without papers and clutter and cat hair and groceries and so on). I envy your considerable Photoshopping skills in making such appealing "virtual" still lifes! Let me guess... you typed this post on a device with autocorrect, and your device did not like the word prutot? I do battle with autocorrect constantly. Sometimes it wins, and the results are embarrassing, or hilarious, or both. Once in a blue moon it is actually useful, and corrects a real mistake, but that happens pretty rarely.
Many thanks, Lordmarcovan! The auto correct command on my new Macintosh laptop is very stubborn! I have to trick it into spelling something the way that I've typed it and not "correcting" it. There's probably a preference setting that could stop this from happening but most of the time I appreciate the feature.
Autocorrect does have its uses, though often as not it provides some unexpected comic relief in the text messages I send.
PS- I just zoomed in on the full sized poster in the OP. For that's what it could be, y'know. You've made some very poster-worthy compositions. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to create a calendar for 2018. I'm sure your fellow CT Ancient Coin peeps would be all too happy to each "donate" one coin picture to the cause! @messydesk does some nice calendars, I hear, but so far all of the coin calendars I've seen offered have been for US (aka "Liteside") coins. We World & Ancient (aka "Darkside") people want calendars, too! I know I would buy an ancient coin calendar if you made one. You could also tie in some scriptural quotes in addition to the coin information, which would make it suitable for both numismatists and Christian noncollectors... Food for thought. You've got the skills, and the coins. (And we would love to contribute some coins, too...)
One of the reasons my calendars are US-centric is that most of the coins I photograph are US coins. I have a handful of pictures of ancients from which I had selected one per year over the past several, but didn't have a good one for this year. Putting together a calendar is a fun project, which is why I continue doing it.
Your calendars are beautiful and much appreciated! Putting together a calendar is no small task and it's a lot more work than it looks!
You have a nice eye for composition and background for your coin images Deacon and you have some pretty sweet coins as well. I especially like the double cornucopia prutah. Is that a John Hyrcanus Era coin?
I had to do it, Mat! My old one was excruciatingly slow and it wouldn't run the latest Adobe Photoshop. LOL
My keys stuck on many of the letters due to constant use & plus I like to get a new one every 4 to 6 years, it was overdue.
Hi Curtisimo—yes, the coin that I think your referring to is the John Hyrcanus. The Hasmonean and Herod Kings of Judaea used the double and singular cornucopia (symbol of abundance). The Mattathias Antigonus (last of the Hasmoneans) coin on the left uses it also.
