What grades do you think these four 1990's nickels would get?

Ringgy

I did the best I could with what I have for pictures and lighting, do you think they would be worthy of having them graded? I appreciate total honesty, I would rather know not to waste money. Thanks!

Cocoinut

66, 64, 64, 65

ifthevamzarockin

They would need to hit a 67 to be worth grading, I'm not seeing any 67's there.

coinbuf

65 at best for one or two, not coins I would submit.

Ringgy

It's funny, looking at them with the naked eye, they look so much better, but under my microscope camera, the problems just pop out at you

TurboSnail

You take great and clear pictures!

pursuitofliberty

5, 4, 4 , 6

Great images

TomB

PCGS loves folks who submit those coins.

Maywood

The pop report at PCGS for everything has been so watered down by submissions of coins like this that they aren't worth the price of the submission. As others have said, they would need to grade MS67FS and I don't think these coins are worthy of that grade.

Ringgy

Thanks again everyone!!! thanks also for the comments about my pictures! maybe I'll find a coin that does make it one day, I have a lot that I have sorted out the best, just never took pictures of, the search continues!

ricko

@Ringgy... Great pictures, however, I join the consensus and do not recommend submitting them. Cheers, RickO

dsessom

@Ringgy said:
It's funny, looking at them with the naked eye, they look so much better, but under my microscope camera, the problems just pop out at you

Magnification tends to do that!

I would like to inquire about your photography setup, because your photos are absolutely magnificent! Would you mind sharing what camera. lens, lighting, etc. that you use?

TPRC

64,65,63,66

Riley1955

Great pics. The coins are also super.

GRANDAM

I think you guys are off, I think they would all grade MS65+ FS to MS66+ FS.
I would submit them or offer you $20 for the group and submit them myself and post the grades here.

I want to update my grades,,,,,, I was looking at the coins from my phone,,,, from my computer I say
MS64FS
MS65FS
MS65+FS
MS66FS

DennisH

66FS
66FS
65FS
66FS

Ringgy

@dsessom said:

@Ringgy said:
It's funny, looking at them with the naked eye, they look so much better, but under my microscope camera, the problems just pop out at you

Magnification tends to do that!

I would like to inquire about your photography setup, because your photos are absolutely magnificent! Would you mind sharing what camera. lens, lighting, etc. that you use?

I have nothing special, it's a Leuchtturm microscope on a 15" stand hooked to my laptop with a cheep flexible LED desk light that I move around to pick up places on the coin the microscope shadows, sometimes if the coin is too reflective, like these, I turn down or even off the light on the microscope to avoid the glare from those interfering with my picture and just use the desk light

Project Numismatics

Awesome pics!

Not sure these are worth submitting from a financial perspective.

Clackamas1

5, 4, 4 , 6 all FS

Ringgy

@Ringgy said:

@dsessom said:

@Ringgy said:
It's funny, looking at them with the naked eye, they look so much better, but under my microscope camera, the problems just pop out at you

Magnification tends to do that!

I would like to inquire about your photography setup, because your photos are absolutely magnificent! Would you mind sharing what camera. lens, lighting, etc. that you use?

I have nothing special, it's a Leuchtturm microscope on a 15" stand hooked to my laptop with a cheep flexible LED desk light that I move around to pick up places on the coin the microscope shadows, sometimes if the coin is too reflective, like these, I turn down or even off the light on the microscope to avoid the glare from those interfering with my picture and just use the desk light

I guess I should have also said, I use Photoshop app to crop and if necessary remove the background, I only remove the background when my picture is going to used as the best example for Numista.com to use when my coin/token is the first to be added or to replace a lower quality picture, that to me is fun to see my coin/token hyperlinked to from Numista when helping someone identify what they have, here is just one example of a token of mine, https://en.numista.com/catalogue/exonumia315654.html

Aspie_Rocco

I think the following grades would be very generous.
64
64fs
63fs
64fs