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Pillar of the Community
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It may be but without more detail in the pic it is hard to tell if we see a raised leg or just some corrosion giving the impression of a leg. Try doing this Take a smear of some innocuous oil ( mineral oil or even vasaline) and gently rub the surface. You might be able to get a picture which shows more than what you have in the original. It won't hurt the coin and may actually make it look a tad better. At the very least it will create some reflective surface which the camera will show as detail.
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Pillar of the Community
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Does seem to show a cornucopia. The focus is the main issue now though. I think you might try placing the coin on a dark surface and taking more than a few pics. Surely some of them will be focused ! Then try using light from different directions.
We will crack this nut one way or the other !
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New Member
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I will do my best to get better pictures.
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Pillar of the Community
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Still a bit fuzzy but it now looks less like a cornucopia.
Try doing the portrait side. Are you using a phone ? Perhaps you may have sneezed on the lens ! Check to make sure. Use cotton cloth to clean ! Paper napkin will scratch the lens ! Perhaps this has already happened
Edited by FVRIVS RVFVS 03/17/2015 4:55 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Can I suggest that you take the photo zoomed out so that it is in focus. Then crop the photo in something like Microsoft Picture Manager. Set the file size as "large" in the camera. If you are going to be taking lots of coin pictures, you might want to invest in a macro lens and you would also find a copy stand hugely beneficial. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Copy-Stan...em5b083f83a3I got this one, never looked back since.
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New Member
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I have the book ERIC II and when I look by Aelius and if I look at the coin the only possibilty would be that it is Felicitas with caduceus at the left and cornucopia right. But the problem is that it then would be a sesterius wchich it can't be of his weight. So then we have to look like you said at Hadrian. When you look at the right the symbol that it could be : cornucopia/trident/rudder and at left it could be a patera or maybe a scale. See my drawing. 
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Pillar of the Community
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Just one decent pic of the obverse would be very helpful.
With the thousand reverse angles we now have I agree it seems to be a cornucopia !
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New Member
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It could also be Fortuna standing left holding patera and cornucopia. There is so one AE As by Hadrian and also the bust of Hadrian appears +/- the same (nr 1423 p 175 Eric II book)but I don't know if that coin normally has the reference S C . That is not mentioned in that book. What do you think ?
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Here is a coin almost the same on behalf the bust. 
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Thx for all the help guys. I just made a collage of the pictures where you can see it all a bit better. New opinions are welcome. 
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