Helvius Pertinax

Just now, Zimm said:

Those are really nice pictures, even more so with the background.

I personally only have one coin with golden toning, this antoninianus of Gallienus. It's not a special coin by any means, but the toning makes it look pretty nice in my opinion.

 

Great neckbeard, and I that full silvering? A nice coin, especially with that toning! I have a Gallienus too, but the silvering has worn off a bit. It was a gift from an American collector, I like the style of the bust.

4 minutes ago, expat said:

My Wife is half German, half Norwegian so as tribute to her, two commemoratives

 

Cool, I am at the Barbarossa - Denkmal right now. An impressive monument!

27 minutes ago, maridvnvm said:

Golden toned silver can be very attractive even when it is a Gorgoneion being depicted.

 

Wow, that toning looks superb 😮 Also, is that Pescennius Niger in your profile? Or Septimius? The hand above the picture makes it hardly visible for me, at least on mobile.

This is due to the lighting, although the coins do have a golden toning.

Oh, what a nice idea! I grew up and currently live in germany, a country with a long history of minting coins! Here is a 2€ coin, from a series that shows a new important german building every year. The series started in the year I was born and I collected every single year up until,2022. Here is the 2017 edition, featuring a roman city gate called Porta Nigra:

Something you don't wanna be bitten by 😅 Congrats on the nice coin!

Thanks to the person who invited me over here! I see a lot of familiar names from the forum I was never able to join since my account got banned immediately after I created it 🤔

Thanks to everyone for the interesting posts, I learned a lot from you all!

Now, as some of those more close to me may know, I have an internship in my citys archive for two weeks. Always wanting to experiment, I asked for permission to use an old document as photography background. The results turned out quite nice in my opinion, the pictures have this nice golden glow to them. Here are my three favourites!

What a handsome lady! I have a similar type, the more common Campanian didrachm. This one is a bit special though, being minted in Nola, not Neapolis. The lady on the obverse - Parthenope, one of the sirens from the Odyssee - must have had some mad singing skills! It's tricky to photograph unfortunately: 

Nola, AR didrachm

400 - 375 BC

Obverse: diademed head of nymph (Parthenope) facing left

Reverse: man-faced bull (Achelous) advancing right, crowned by Nike flying above, NOLAION in exergue