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<p>[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 4952517, member: 75937"]I only use the camera on my Android phone and it does okay for the purposes of showing my coins here at CT. I don't run a high-end auction house. The hardest coins to photograph are the ones with reflective surfaces, such as lustrous silver coins and bronze coins with glossy patinas, such as this husband/wife pair:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/antoninus-pius-pietati-avg-cos-iiii-fecunditas-denarius-jpg.1162927/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Antoninus Pius, AD 138-161.</p><p>Roman AR denarius, 3.15 g, 18.1 mm, 11 h.</p><p>Rome, December, AD 160- March, AD 161.</p><p>Obv: ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P XXIIII, laureate head, right.</p><p>Rev: PIETATI AVG COS IIII, Faustina II (as Pietas) standing left, holding a child on each arm; at each side of her, a child standing looking towards her and raising hand.</p><p>Refs: RIC <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.313C" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.313C" rel="nofollow">313c</a>; BMCRE <a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1894-1105-18" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1894-1105-18" rel="nofollow">1013</a>-14; Cohen 631; Strack 384; RCV 4098.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/faustina-sr-avgvsta-vesta-standing-sestertius-jpg.939842/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Faustina Senior, AD 138-141.</p><p>Roman orichalcum sestertius, 24.57 g, 32.0 mm.</p><p>Rome, AD 145-147.</p><p>Obv: DIVA FAVSTINA, bare-headed and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: AVGVSTA S C, Vesta veiled, standing left, holding palladium and scepter.</p><p>Refs: RIC 1124; BMCRE 1519-20; Cohen 110 = 122 corr.; Strack 1294; RCV 4617.</p><p>Notes: Cohen 122 (Wiczay): "Concordia? standing l., holding statue and wand," (La Concorde? debout à gauche, tenant une statuette et une baguette) is almost certainly a badly described specimen of this type.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 4952517, member: 75937"]I only use the camera on my Android phone and it does okay for the purposes of showing my coins here at CT. I don't run a high-end auction house. The hardest coins to photograph are the ones with reflective surfaces, such as lustrous silver coins and bronze coins with glossy patinas, such as this husband/wife pair: [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/antoninus-pius-pietati-avg-cos-iiii-fecunditas-denarius-jpg.1162927/[/IMG] Antoninus Pius, AD 138-161. Roman AR denarius, 3.15 g, 18.1 mm, 11 h. Rome, December, AD 160- March, AD 161. Obv: ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P XXIIII, laureate head, right. Rev: PIETATI AVG COS IIII, Faustina II (as Pietas) standing left, holding a child on each arm; at each side of her, a child standing looking towards her and raising hand. Refs: RIC [URL='http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.313C']313c[/URL]; BMCRE [URL='https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1894-1105-18']1013[/URL]-14; Cohen 631; Strack 384; RCV 4098. [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/faustina-sr-avgvsta-vesta-standing-sestertius-jpg.939842/[/IMG] Faustina Senior, AD 138-141. Roman orichalcum sestertius, 24.57 g, 32.0 mm. Rome, AD 145-147. Obv: DIVA FAVSTINA, bare-headed and draped bust, right. Rev: AVGVSTA S C, Vesta veiled, standing left, holding palladium and scepter. Refs: RIC 1124; BMCRE 1519-20; Cohen 110 = 122 corr.; Strack 1294; RCV 4617. Notes: Cohen 122 (Wiczay): "Concordia? standing l., holding statue and wand," (La Concorde? debout à gauche, tenant une statuette et une baguette) is almost certainly a badly described specimen of this type.[/QUOTE]
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