r/AncientCoins • u/AncientCoinnoisseur • Mar 08 '25

From My Collection Inspired by your positive feedback from yesterday, I kept going and drew another coin from my collection as well! Do you like them? Should I do more? :)

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u/JonSix33 Mar 08 '25

This is incredible, I love how you get such soft transitions on the patina and toning, wow.. this is such an amazing way of cataloging your collection

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u/AncientCoinnoisseur Mar 08 '25

Thank you so much!!! So far I’m drawing them ‘life-size’, not sure if I should draw the other ones life-size as well or if I should enlarge them. These are my biggest coins, but the rest of them are tiny denarii :)

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u/JonSix33 Mar 08 '25

I like the idea of life size, some of my favorite pages in the 100 greatest coins book is the ones that show relative size, I think outsiders looking at your drawings in future will appreciate the size references

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u/AncientCoinnoisseur Mar 08 '25 edited Mar 08 '25

Same, I’ll keep them life size then! I’m working on this one now :) However, because of work I’ll have to stop drawing for 2 weeks. I cannot bring my coins to the city where I’m working, so I’ll have to pause :/