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Empress of Antoninus Pius.

She was said to be beautiful and her marriage to Pius was reported to be a happy one. She died twenty years before Pius and he never remarried.

I tried on my budget to capture a well struck and detailed silver denarius and this was the one I picked.

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Beautiful Coin! Thanks for sharing! That's all I need is to have another area of coinage that I really want to collect. :)
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Nice portrait with great details. Certainly better than my one... I can just imagine Marcus Aurelius saying "I'm not saying the mother-in-law's ugly, but she uses her bottom lip as a shower cap."
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You did well; very little wear, and almost complete legends, nice portrait.
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 Posted 10/27/2015  08:27 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add echizento to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Beautiful detail of the bust of the empress. Excellent coin, congrats.
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She came in the mail today. I'm pleased to see the silver shine is much more pronounced than the ad showed.

Very nice detail. :)

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Thank you everyone.
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Just a little trick: coins always look better when you don't get too close. Closeups show surface detail that may help with identification, but is only needed if the surface is very distressed. Otherwise, there is a comfortable viewing/shooting distance back a ways. Coin photographers like to refer to "appearance in the hand."
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