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Thank You for the history of the coin

 

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=> okay Noob, I went back and finished reading your coin hunting experience (and I enjoyed it)

... oh and again, congrats on a very cool octopus-coin!! (sweet score)

Ummmm, but there is one more gold-avenue out there for coin-hunters ...

=> this lil' baby is in roughly the same price-range ($380 hammer + extras)

LESBOS, Mytilene. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater
Circa 478-455 BC
Diameter: 10 mm
Weight: 2.48 grams
Obverse: Ram’s head right
Reverse: Incuse bull’s head right
Reference: Bodenstedt Em. 27; HGC 6, 954




.... baaaaaaaaah!!



NOTE: sure, I guess this baby is actually an "Electrum" (gold nuff for ya?)

 

Nice coin and nice price, but its not gold, haha, its electrum!My much younger 7.6 gram Electrum Hun stater was cheaper.

I am glad I was able to twist your arm to read it, and I am glad you liked it.

BTW that Heckte is goatackular!!

Why hasn't every one piled on their Base gold, Electrum and Gold coins by now....lets have it...

 

I beat ya to the punch => oh, and my Ram-electrum could beat-up your Hun-electrum, anyday!!

 

If your new coin is 20k gold or more, I suspect the color is off in your images or my monitor. It looks ~9k on my monitor and we know it has a greater percentage of gold than that. Perhaps boosting the yellow saturation (or all colors in the saturation adjustment) would make the pictures more closely resemble the in-hand look?

Example:

 

I figured-out the problem ...

=> Noob, were you wearing these when you purchased your new coin?




.... this never gets old, eh dawg?



=> I love ya, coin-brother

 

I wasn't wearing those but it appears I should have been.

 

Man, TIF thinks that she knows it all, eh?




.... ummm, please don't tell her that I said that ...

 

Well each coin was taken individually with the what appears (to me) to be the most accurate representation of the coin in hand. I admit had heck a time with the dinar but I feel confident in the result. The coining appears silver in light and gold in another as you roll it through your finders. I feel confident in my result. The gold coin I reduced some color vibrancy because I was picking up colors from the environment. I might have to play with this some.

I was looking at this coin. Great care was taken in its photography, but yet it appears near orange(y).



I got to think about this. It might be as simple as wearing a yellow shirt next time I hake the photo.

 

Thats fine...

 

Nice photo => you really managed to catch the optimum lighting (however, it seems to be a fake)

 

What is you opinion on the 2 sets of photos?

 

Noob => your photos seem far more natural than TIF's version (however, I'm very afraid of TIF, so I like her photos better!!)

 

Ok who's making all this noise about a gold coin!!!, Masternoob awesome coin, having a gold Ancient off the chart. the info, charts, maps and a statue of Carman Electra doesn't hurt. love your new coin, sweet!!!

Who doesn't love big gold coins..

 

Eng Those two of the most awesome coins. Number one is my favorite Eng coin!!!

 

Anoob, post animal coins at regular intervals throughout your write-ups and that will keep Steve's attention

Interesting coin and write up!

 

exactly Jango =>ummm, or post more chick-statues!!?

 

I have very little experience with 'gold' but I am stricken with the terms people apply to gold colors as if those were the choices. Ancient gold was not made from metals blended according to a modern recipe for red gold, green gold or whatever. A lot of the color of gold comes from the metals used in the alloy and anything under 12k is less than 50% gold so it really makes a difference what those metals are and how those metals have weathered the ages and any volcanic activity, for example, they may have experienced. In the jewelry business, few people want gold anything like the purity of ancient coins. Coins as impure as most jewelry are not called 'gold' but things like 'electrum'. The one that bothers me is 'white gold' which usually gets rhodium plating so you can't see the gold. Right? I have spent very little effort on gold colors since I have so few coins.

electrum well under half gold


I once was proud of the image below showing the same coin lighted differently. I really need to dig it out and try again.


The one below is a favorite gold color of mine. It is called 'dirty gold'. Jewelry and vases get cleaned too often to ever get such a layer of grime.

 

Ummm ... sorry my awesome ancient coin-friends, is this cool?

=> they're all 99.9% gold ... purdy lil' gold animals, eh?!!!

 

Canada gold coins have a lot of 9's.