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Coin scanned 2 different ways-which do you like?

RoverRover Posts: 157
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The answer seems obvious to me. The pic to the left is how I have been scanning my coins until recently. The way they looked has always bothered me but I didn't turn on the logic center in my brain until just the other day. By rotating the coin 180 degrees (so that it is upside down in my scanner) I achieved the scan on the right. It looks better since it is lit from above.

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Dan

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  • flaminioflaminio Posts: 5,664 ✭✭✭
    The one on the right, definitely! I gotta try that "rotate" thingee myself...
  • IvanOnlyIvanOnly Posts: 226
    No kidding, i will have to as well
    Sets Complete:
    Eisenhower Dollar, BU

    Set Incomplete:
    Roosevelt Dime
    1900 - Current Type, No Gold
    Silver Eagle
  • BNEBNE Posts: 772 ✭
    Definitely the one on the right -- it makes the devices look brighter than the fields, which seems more "normal." Nice coin!
    "The essence of sleight of hand is distraction and misdirection. If smoeone can be convinced that he has, through his own perspicacity, divined your hidden purposes, he will not look further."

    William S. Burroughs, Cities of the Red Night
  • OgdenOgden Posts: 435 ✭
    I would have never thought to try that. Thanks.

    Ogden
  • RoverRover Posts: 157
    Ogden-You live in Utah?
  • solidsolid Posts: 2,975
    Of course the one on the right looks better...some things can be so simple!

    Way to go, Dan!

  • MrKelsoMrKelso Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭
    what scanner are you using here?


    "The silver is mine and the gold is mine,' declares the LORD GOD Almighty."
  • RoverRover Posts: 157
    HP ScanJet 3500c
  • MrKelsoMrKelso Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭
    It does a nice job. Thanks for the info.


    "The silver is mine and the gold is mine,' declares the LORD GOD Almighty."
  • ursabearursabear Posts: 1,888
    1) Cool coin!
    2) Yes, the one on the right (of course, if you got a reverse Canadian proof, then, the left)
    3) Thank you for that nugget of knowledge!
    4) Cool post!

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