my first 1/2 cent, my first pic

ad4400

This is my first foray into large copper for my type set. I bought it raw at the Leesburg VA coin show two weeks back. As you can also gather it is also my first attempt at photographing a coin (I’m sure the blurriness is caused by holding the camera in hand), but any comments on the coin would be welcome.

Cladiator

fengk

nice half cent. As for the bluriness, try using a tripod which should help out a lot.

Coxe

Nice chocolate piece.

mgoodm3

nice.

Smittys

Nice coin, nice pic, a little out of focus

Elcontador

Is there any luster left on this coin? Finding problem-free Braided Hair Half Cents is dificult. Usually you wind up with an ugly 1855, whose strike is always poor in any event.

ad4400

Hard for me to say if there is any luster left since I never got the "luster under the toning" concept. The coin is actually darker and more uniform in color in hand than the picture portrays.

Myqqy

I like that one a lot....

123cents

Nice half-cent. Congratulations.

DJC

Nice and clean brown copper... I like it.

etexmike

Not too bad for your first large copper and not too bad on your first pic.

Very nice half center. Congrats.

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etexmike

JZrarities

Nice color !

GoldenEyeNumismatics

very sharply struck upper AU. Nice!

Omega

Better than my first 1/2 cent and better then 98% of my pics! Nice coin

Bunker

Very Nice!

NumisOxide

Nice.

AZLARRY

Very nice coin A tripod will do wonders for your pictures.

Shamika

This is one of the more interesting series. It never gets the appreciation it deserves.

ad4400

Thanks for all the feedback. Glad I trusted my instinct on this one. I was drawn to her by the uniform color, nice strike and relatively ding free surfaces. During my first pass the coin was in a 2X2 which had crud on the plastic, so I asked if it could be removed for closer inspection. It was, and before putting it a new 2X2 the dealer checked the grey sheet and proclaimed it was underpriced, marked it up by almost 20%, but said I could get the prior price “for this show only”. I made my 2nd pass of the 10 or so dealers that were there that day and saw nothing else of interest and picked up the piece that I did. Glad I did, as it looks like I picked a winner despite the fact that I hadn’t invested much time at all researching this series. I have no idea whether the price markup was part of a ploy to get me to buy that day - I’ve dealt with this person before and they seem to be above such tactics.