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braddickbraddick Posts: 24,206 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Even with my monitor contrast turned down low I squinted to see this one!
Stunning: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3012497741&category=11944 image

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  • hookedoncoinshookedoncoins Posts: 1,231 ✭✭✭
    WHOA! I have never seen colors that bright! My eyes are burning!

    -Jarrett Roberts
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Its a simple case of excessive solar radiation (severe sunburn).

    Looks like someone turned up the toning button , to color me ridiculous.
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • aeast236aeast236 Posts: 285 ✭
    drooool!!! That is one pretty coin. I just won one of his auctions and cant wait to see it in person.
  • robertprrobertpr Posts: 6,862 ✭✭✭
    Zoinks!
  • clw54clw54 Posts: 3,815 ✭✭✭
    How did that happen?
  • dbldie55dbldie55 Posts: 7,736 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Must have went to a different coin for me. All I saw was a putrid looking Lincoln. Looks corroded.
    Collector and Researcher of Liberty Head Nickels. ANA LM-6053
  • braddickbraddick Posts: 24,206 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Must have went to a different coin for me. All I saw was a putrid looking Lincoln. Looks corroded. >>


    Hey!! If that was my coin I'd be deeply offended!

    Ok, not really. . .

    peacockcoins

  • dbldie55dbldie55 Posts: 7,736 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Just consider me one less bidder to contend with. Everyone has different tastes. A coin like that is worth nothing to me. In other words, if I owned it, I would have no hard feelings selling it.
    Collector and Researcher of Liberty Head Nickels. ANA LM-6053
  • satootokosatootoko Posts: 2,720 ✭


    << <i>All I saw was a putrid looking Lincoln. Looks corroded. >>


    Or tarnished.image
    Roy


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  • hookedoncoinshookedoncoins Posts: 1,231 ✭✭✭
    How did that coin only make RB? That is the brightest red I have ever seen.

    -Jarrett Roberts
  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    My my, some people seem to love to play with photoshop. May not be what happened here, but sure looks like it.
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  • OuthaulOuthaul Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I side with Neil...looks scanner toned to me.
  • coppercoinscoppercoins Posts: 6,084 ✭✭✭
    A severe case of tarnish from environmental damage. I'll take mine naturally red, thanks.
    C. D. Daughtrey, NLG
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  • braddickbraddick Posts: 24,206 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I side with Neil...looks scanner toned to me. >>


    The PCGS green insert and color the the slab tell me this one hasn't received any serious tweeking of the photo.

    peacockcoins

  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    May not be photoshoped, but I think the lighting makes it look like this. And maybe a photoshop filter to sharpen or something. When you consider the angle the pic is, it's likely to not look as impressive dead on. You can tell that the top image is stretched to make it look more round from the angle it was photographed in.
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  • BNEBNE Posts: 772 ✭
    Well, most toned coins require a little tilting to look their best. This is not a problem, to me.
    "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
  • coingame2000coingame2000 Posts: 732
    I've purchased a number of coins from this seller and have been very satisfied -- so I disagree on the tweaking.

    Mike
    DE FALCO NUMISMATIC CONSULTING
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  • OuthaulOuthaul Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>The PCGS green insert and color the the slab tell me this one hasn't received any serious tweeking of the photo. >>



    Good point, Pat...I stand corrected.

    Cheers,

    Bob
  • LincolnCentManLincolnCentMan Posts: 5,347 ✭✭✭✭
    I've only bought one coin from that seller. Although I was very pleased with the coin, the picture certainly portrayed it in a beter light (or lights). As far as that coin goes... well... let's just say that I'm less than impressed.

    David
    Lincolncentman Toned Lincolns
  • WWWWWW Posts: 2,609 ✭✭✭
    His images are tweaked using Photoshop. But only in order to match the coin.
    But check his feedback. Even the illustrious and infamous Anaconda has commented
    how the image matched the coin. I can also attest to the accuracy of the colors in his
    images as I have bought several coins from this seller and without exception, they have
    matched or exceeded the image. He does use a very bright lighting set up, IMHO, and
    that is what I suspect generates some of the comments about his image enhancement.

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