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 Posted 03/15/2015  3:27 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add FVRIVS RVFVS to your friends list
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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 Posted 03/16/2015  08:57 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add hans to your friends list
Hi, I've done that but if it helps ? It is difficult to take a picture or scan such a coin.

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 Posted 03/16/2015  3:16 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add FVRIVS RVFVS to your friends list
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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 Posted 03/17/2015  09:39 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add hans to your friends list
I will do my best to get better pictures.
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 Posted 03/17/2015  3:25 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add hans to your friends list
Maybe this can help ?

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 Posted 03/17/2015  4:52 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add FVRIVS RVFVS to your friends list
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
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03/17/2015 4:55 pm
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 Posted 03/18/2015  04:57 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add hans to your friends list
When you zoom out it looks better. I 've taken the pictures with a Canon EOS 600D but it is a very difficult coin to take a picture of because the lens that we have isn't a good one to zoom on such a coin.
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 Posted 03/18/2015  05:56 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add pishpash to your friends list
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...em5b083f83a3
I got this one, never looked back since.
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 Posted 03/18/2015  06:03 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add hans to your friends list
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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 Posted 03/18/2015  06:38 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add FVRIVS RVFVS to your friends list
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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 Posted 03/18/2015  06:40 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add hans to your friends list
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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 Posted 03/18/2015  06:50 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add hans to your friends list
Here is a coin almost the same on behalf the bust.

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 Posted 03/18/2015  6:23 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add chrsmat71 to your friends list
i bet that's it.
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 Posted 03/19/2015  10:00 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add hans to your friends list
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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