Digital camera picture vs. scanner - Byzantine Justinian follis

WillieBoyd2

I recently acquired this Byzantine Justinian coin.
I created these pictures using an Olympus digital camera and an HP scanner.
The images are quite different for the same coin.

Digital camera picture:


Scanner picture:


Coin details:
Byzantine Justinian AE Follis
Obverse: Justinian facing, holding globus with cross
D N IVSTINIANVS PP AVG
Reverse: Large letter "M", ANNO left, cross top, X/II/II right (year 14)
Exergue: NIKO (Nicomedia mint)
Catalog: Sear 163 - Struck AD 540-541 - Size 32mm

ormandh

You are not going to get the same result from a scanner because there will not be any depth of field. Was the scan made by you or the seller? If you bought the coin based on the scan then you scored!!! -Dan

JZrarities

Remarkable Difference !

mrfred

awesome

spoon

Major improvement!
Even with a camera though those old dark bits are hard to capture.

Funny thing is, after years of suffering through ebay I think I've learned how to properly interpret a scanned pic, a sort of "scanner vision".