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lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 8,166 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Collecting: Dansco 7070; Middle Date Large Cents (VF-AU); Box of 20;

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  • gumby1234gumby1234 Posts: 5,589 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Has an odd color probably from some kind of cleaning

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  • lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 8,166 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 25, 2022 6:32PM

    Lighting perhaps? These are the seller's pics...

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  • gumby1234gumby1234 Posts: 5,589 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 25, 2022 6:53PM

    That looks much better color wise. It must be your lighting. Nice looking coin with very few marks. I like it.

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  • WilliamFWilliamF Posts: 831 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 25, 2022 7:20PM

    Sweet! A nice high-AU example methinks :)
    How much did you pay for it if you don't mind telling us?

    Edit: Possibly low MS in every area except for the hair curls, I'm seeing just a little bit of wear...

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  • coinbufcoinbuf Posts: 11,477 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Which of the two sets of photos looks more like the coin in hand?

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  • lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 8,166 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @coinbuf said:
    Which of the two sets of photos looks more like the coin in hand?

    I have to admit that the seller's images are better than mine. I just can't seem to get the white balance correct on my camera... Canon Powershot. It's an old setup...

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  • LanceNewmanOCCLanceNewmanOCC Posts: 19,999 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 25, 2022 7:45PM

    i see possible corrosion, luster, obvious au details, early middle date. nice pick up.

    probably needs a proper copper soak to ensure that corrosive contaminant is neutralized. then a bit of the stuff they put on nice circ coppers. rod burress used to put it on his coins.

    too tired for attribution.

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  • amwldcoinamwldcoin Posts: 11,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @lkenefic said:

    @coinbuf said:
    Which of the two sets of photos looks more like the coin in hand?

    I have to admit that the seller's images are better than mine. I just can't seem to get the white balance correct on my camera... Canon Powershot. It's an old setup...

    Sometimes with my camera I have to put a bit more light than it seems I should need to get the color to come out right on copper.

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very nice old copper... I like the second set of pictures.... Looks like the couple of copper cents I have when in hand. Looks like a low MS to me. Cheers, RickO

  • LanceNewmanOCCLanceNewmanOCC Posts: 19,999 ✭✭✭✭✭

    looks like a single light used here. try 2 lights, at 10 & 2 o'clock or 3 & 9. usually the nicer the coin the less 1 light will work.

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  • lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 8,166 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That's basically my set up, but one of the lights is a florescent lamp. The other is a 75 watt incandescent. My camera is ancient too... :-/

    So, other than sucky pictures and inconsistent color... how does the coin look? Details, surfaces... thanks for weighing in.

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  • RayboRaybo Posts: 5,330 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'll take it, sweet early copper.

  • Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,506 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Agree with AU, and pretty nice. The portrait has as a real 3D look to it.
    Maybe evidence of die rust at 11 o’clock on the obverse?

    Not being a purist, I’d probably apply some Blue Ribbon to the reverse, and maybe a rose thorn and a gentle brushing, to remove some of the light crud, or at least ensure it’s made inert.

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  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 34,901 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @lkenefic said:

    @coinbuf said:
    Which of the two sets of photos looks more like the coin in hand?

    I have to admit that the seller's images are better than mine. I just can't seem to get the white balance correct on my camera... Canon Powershot. It's an old setup...

    Try using a grey background

  • amwldcoinamwldcoin Posts: 11,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @lkenefic said:
    That's basically my set up, but one of the lights is a florescent lamp. The other is a 75 watt incandescent. My camera is ancient too... :-/

    So, other than sucky pictures and inconsistent color... how does the coin look? Details, surfaces... thanks for weighing in.

    I would wager florescent is your problem. Try replacing it with an incandescent.

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