Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/12/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Rabs, Thanks for looking and your kind comment! The coin was photographed with an ancient Sinar digital back with a strobe on the side lighting the coin with a half-silvered mirror between the lens and coin. Best, John On 12/16/12 6:52 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > Gorgeous! And as on a scale of one to 100 my interested coins is 1 while my > interest in photography is 100 and this is a photography list may I ask HOW > you photographed it? > > > On 12/16/12 5:15 PM, "John D. Nebel" <john.nebel at csdco.com> wrote: > >> <http://photos.csd.net/croesus_stater.html> >> >> mouse over the image to view the reverse, click on the image for a >> enlargement >> >> The coin is 16.6 mm diameter, 8 gm mass, struck in the 6th century BC >> >> According to Herodotus, the Lydians were the first people to strike >> coins of silver and of gold. This coin is not quite the first issue of >> gold coins, by one brief preceding issue. >> >> Croesus was undecided about whether or not to go to war with the >> Persians as their king Cyrus was becoming a threat. As a test, he sent >> an envoy to each of the known oracles instructing the envoys on a >> certain date to all ask the same question, what he was doing at that >> time. The envoys did not know the answer, so this was a good test. The >> Delphic oracle and one other answered correctly, that Croesus was making >> turtle and lamb soup in a bronze cauldron. He bestowed lavish gifts on >> the successful oracles and then had asked the important question, >> whether or not he should go to war with Cyrus. The answer was that a >> great kingdom would fall if he did. He did go to war and a great >> kingdom fell, however, one must be careful of the phrasing of questions >> to oracles, and how to interpret their pronouncements. >> >> comments, etc welcome. >> >> John >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > >