Just NAILED down this Photo of this dam* 1879 proof like gold dollar!

ambro51

Something Ive tried to do a lot has been take a decent photo of this very brilliant prooflike 1879.

Its DIFFERENT!

Dennis88

. I am by no means a photo expert, but maybe you should adjust the white balance? That would make it almost perfect I think.

Dennis

robec

Here is another version.

robec

I had this PL a couple of years ago. They are very tough to shoot. This is by no means saying that this one is in the same category as your 1879 PL. That is a beauty!!

Dennis88

Personally, I like the 2nd picture better, but it all depends on how the coin looks in hand. What's up with the word Liberty? Is that common on these tiny gold coins?

Dennis

ambro51

Yes I like that 2nd one too.....it really looks just like the shiny coin in the slab in hand, I wanted something different. Made up a short tube of two pieces of white computer paper, and put the slab in the bottom. Put the paper tube in direct sun, and the digital camera and add on macro lens into the paper tube, with a black hood over my head to get the viewscrene right.

It just came out so different I guess I like it in an artistic/ photographerish sort of way.

Sometimes you have liberty, sometimes its buffed off or missing somehow. Its actually on this coin, not struck in too hard though, and the lighting does something with it too.