Post your interesting coin comparison

islemangu

Just for fun..2 of your coins that you choose the correlation..anything goes

lordmarcovan

Not two different coins, and one I've posted several times before, but a good example of how a scanner and a camera can make the same coin look like two entirely different pieces...


Scanner:





Camera:





It's a pretty small coin.

keets

rather self explanatory, the image on the left is a medal from the Pan-American Exposition held in 1901 and the image on the right is from the 1923 Monroe Commemorative.

so much for artistic license.

al h.

ldhair

Just a couple of old cents

mgoodm3

Here you go, four different lightings of the same coin.

TommyType

This one may be informative. Not real good at photographing cameo coins, but the difference should be obvious. I guess that "Star" must mean "better than ICG"??

BAJJERFAN

islemangu

Some neat post here, thanks for sharing
to throw in one more

Baley

Here's an 1807 Overton 102, a common variety

Note the distance from star 7 to the L, and the levels of the top of the T and Y in LIBERTY,
the relationship of the tip of the beak to the star point, the tip of the olive leaf to the letter I,
and the distance from the letter A to the third and fourth feathers.

Here's an O.104, a scarce variety

this obverse is distinguished by due lumps near the milling between stars 2 and 3.
The center of the obverse is weak because of "die sinking"

Here's an O.115, a rare variety

Here the space between star 7 and the L is larger, and the distance from star 1 to the curl is smaller.
This marriage used the same reverse (B) as the 104

Also note the position of the 7 in the date, this digit was punched at a later date than the rest of the die was prepared,
probably in 1806, with the last digit omitted so just 180 was put in the initial die work, the die was stored,
and the 7 punched in later, at various angles.

Weiss

Two 1880-s Morgans. The NGC is a 64 and blast white back & front. The PCGS is a 65 and has a drizzled-with-coffee look on the obv and a gorgeous sunset on the back: