MY VOTE FOR COIN PIC OF 2002 !!!!!!!

DMWJR

Ok, who ate a gallon of green jello and then threw up all over the coin?

Green Gobbler

kranky

What is up with that photo? All the other photos look normal!

On a side note, when you are selling a MS coin, you should not use a sentence like this in the auction description like this guy did:
"This is an extremely fine looking coin"

merz2

Doug
I agree with your assesment.That has to be the worst close-up picture ever put on an auction.That RPM is one of the most desireable because it is totally seperated.IMHO

DMWJR

He's got green pictures on ALL of his auctions!?!?!?!

Go figure

coppercoins

I'm not going to defend the guy, but I have a personal case that could somewhat answer for his woes...

I am colorblind, and cannot see the difference between green, red, and brown. It has taken YEARS of experience looking at thousands and hundreds of thousands of coins to be able to accurately asses the color of copper coins for myself. Even with all of that, I still cannot accurately discern accurate coloring of images taken of copper coins. I have nearly narrowed down which buttons to push to get the true color of a coin in an image regardless of the situation, but it has taken MUCHO practice and a LOT of bugging my wife to look at photos for me to get it right. Believe me, for those of us who are color impaired, images of copper are THE worst nightmare a person could face.

My best friend in this seemingly endless "never-win" journey has been the RGB value of individual pixels in the image and a full understanding of what they mean and how to tweak them...but I assure you an entire book could be written on that subject alone and still not help anyone who can't discern the colors. Just some food for thought. The guy may not have a patient wife like I do.

eminem

So it looks all grey to you coppercoins?? I am in the electric service field and i worked with a guy who saw the red power wires and the green ground wires as grey....yikes.. he also said he saw traffic lights as top...grey middle....yellow bottom...grey. I guess we all take colors for granted.

DMWJR

Good grief CC, what ever drew you into copper? (There is no sarcasm in that question either).

As far as this guy, the other photos are "normal" and I think he is just doing this to the pic because he thinks it is "neat." Watch the look on your wife's face when you show here the green coin photo.

coppercoins

eminem - Not gray, more like: earthtone, blue, earthtone, yellow, earthtone, white, etc.. Earthtone could be any mix of reds, greens, and browns, and can look more or less like the others. Some shades of green are gray to me. Blue and purple get confused because sometimes the red in the purple gets cancelled out. The only colors I can see for sure are yellow and blue...of course black and white are also very visible.

I see all of the shades, it's the colors that get me. I also have better than average eyesight - just really crappy color perception.

DMWJR - Well, actually I didn't know I had a problem until I was a teenager and had been into copper for a few years already. I also had no idea at the time that I would eventually be publishing about copper, and also had no idea that I would eventually be editing photos of copper on a computer. I was just interested in the pennies at the time, so that's where I went. I didn't care what color they were. Granted, mercury dimes would probably be easier for me to collect.

As a funny little side trip, as a kid, I:

1. Had no clue why they called the little blue flowers "violet".
2. Saw peanut butter as the same color as grass.
3. Saw "gold" and "metallic green" cars as the same color.
4. Colored people green in my drawings. Sea green looked like skin color to me.
5. Had a real hard time telling the colors of camouflage model airplanes. I colored a model I was working on that was supposed to be painted shades of green and brown, but to other people it came out gray, pink, and blue.

DMWJR

Thanks for the info. I really didn't know that about colorblindness. I can tell that you never let it get in your way, which is great.