PCGS TruView photography

SimonW

For a couple years I’ve been disappointed with my TruView photographs. The coins have spanned a wide range from high grade US to copper to Spanish colonial.

This newest order looks pretty good though! Quite similar to what the coins look like in hand. The white balance seems pretty dang good. Suffice it to say I’m hoping this is the new direction of pics.

Also wanted to thank PCGS for working toward this end. I’m aware that photographing thousands of coins a day isn’t a small task, let alone making them look right.

Clio

Yes, those seem to look much better than what was pouring in from the end of last year.

Early_Milled_Latin_America

Very nice group of coins. Gotta love those 4 reales.

coinkat

Congrats..

Coinlover101

That 58 is sweet

Edit. The 53 too. Dang, they all look sweet

ELuis

@SimonW said:
Also wanted to thank PCGS for working toward this end. I’m aware that photographing thousands of coins a day isn’t a small task, let alone making them look right.

That it is a service that one has to pay, it is too much waiting time.

I only have just three years since I started to send some of my coins to be graded, in specific to PCGS. I noticed last year the issue with that yellow color on the TV images, got that on the two previous coin submissions.

I sent my latest coin submission and can see that now it takes longer to see the coins on the order, or to see your order, the same I saw on the previous one, more than a week, I can see on the USPS tracking system, that they were pickup, just to count the working days to see that they can be marked as coins received, to start the grading phase, on my latest one the same issue.

neildrobertson

My most recent submission had better images than I was getting last year. At least it's a step in the right direction.

ELuis

@neildrobertson said:
My most recent submission had better images than I was getting last year. At least it's a step in the right direction.

That is good, on my recent one they went and fixed the images, they came up a little better.

1960NYGiants

The results of my Canadian submissions at Jan 2025 FUN were a mixed bag. The silvers tended to be more colorful than the coin in hand. I think the saturation setting was too high. The copper/bronze tended to be darker. Overall better than what was produced last year.

marvinf

In the case of toning, True View can be a real asset to selling a coin when so many bidders are not seeing the coin in person. Photos in the slab are notorious for not showing factors, such as toning or reflectivity, that can influence eye appeal tremendously and result in achieving a much stronger price. As all on this forum know, True View, and, more recently, NGC's Photo Vision Plus, are taken before encapsulation, and with an expert coin photographer, can show a coin in all its splendor.
Here's my 300 year old Charles VI coronation medal for example:

marvinf

By the way, this will be for sale sometime this year I think.