Post your personally owned favorite coin picture of all time.................
I posted this and owned this many years ago, but sadly, they're all gone now.
But just having these early halves stacked in a roll was a numismatic treat.
"“Those who sacrifice liberty for security/safety deserve neither.“(Benjamin Franklin)
"I only golf on days that end in 'Y'" (DE59)
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This is my favorite coin. Has it all, flashy luster, great strike beautiful gold toning no visible marks
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Has to be my J. Clapp/Eliasberg 1907-s half in PCGS MS-67 CAC. I'm in love with it. It just has "Numismatic Royalty" written all over it. As a kid, I could have never dreamed about owning such a piece. It only took 45+ years of work and school!
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My first truly collectible Buffalo Nickel. Photo's by crazyhounddog, thanks Joe.
Jim
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This might be my current favorite if only because of how difficult it was to get everything right in the lighting.
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This is far from my most expensive coin, but it's a big favorite. I never thought that I would ever own a piece of small eagle gold.
This 1796 No Stars Quarter Eagle was the cap stone for the collection, so it is up there.
And there is this ... I love the Draped Bust design and here it is perfectly struck on an early half dime, an unusual venue.
Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?29 -
I've got a few favorites for different reasons... I've always like this one.
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This is my current favorite coin photo, but just because I like how focused it came out using my iPhone. Only it depresses me somewhat too because now it makes me want to re-shoot pictures of the other 100 or so slabbed coins I already took using my iPhone before I developed the techniques I used on this one.
I don’t think I have an “all time” favorite coin photo though, I’ve taken so many over the last 15 or so years since I first started taking coin pictures
Mr_Spud
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I met her, have both coins.
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These are some beautiful coins in this thread!!!
Oh my goodness...having been an enthusiastic photographer as long as I've been a coin collector, since the late 70's when I was a kid...and then got my college degree in Commercial Photography...and have spent my whole life taking bajillions of photos professionally and not...
I have a lot of photos. lol.Here's one of my favorite more recent pics...literally the Queen of all Franklin Mint coins ever made imho.
For me a true crowning coin achievement. Never really thought I would actually own one of my favorite coins of all time.
Coins are Neato!
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@3keepSECRETif2rDEAD said:
That could be all of us driving, once the coin shows open up again.
"Gold is money, and nothing else" (JP Morgan, 1912)
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@3keepSECRETif2rDEAD said:
Photoshopped?
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@asheland said:
I love the subtle CAC sticker.
Oh man, I didn't notice that. HAHA!
"Gold is money, and nothing else" (JP Morgan, 1912)
"“Those who sacrifice liberty for security/safety deserve neither.“(Benjamin Franklin)
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...with a green bean no less! lol!!
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It’s so hard to decide!"I'll split the atom! I am the fifth dimension! I am the eighth wonder of the world!" -Gef the talking mongoose.6 -
…absolutely…that be The General from the Dukes, CAC Approved, jumping the new CU building
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Still working on the photography on this one...
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@DoubleEagle59 said:
Post your personally owned favorite coin picture of all time.................Not of all time. I change from day-to-day.
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that reminds me of this coin... I call it my "Speedway 5 with a couple of Shooting Stars"...
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My little Numismatist
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I've never seen a 1919-D with this type of strike or originality. Very smooth surfaces, too.
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Big fan of crusty old gold!
This one...
And this one...
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@Walkerfan very nice ‘19 D
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@USSID17 said:
Very nice. What's going on there, feeder-fingers?
BTW: What's this?..................Don't answer that!!
lol!! I guess I need to take a picture after she shaves!
I think the "fingers" are inconsistencies in the die when it was tooled... it looks "as struck"...
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@kiyote said:
It’s so hard to decide!Before last weekend's Saturday Night Live, you likely could have bought a Tesla with one (or two) of those
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@ThreeCentSilverFL said:
My little NumismatistClean fingers and dirty old gold.
And she looks delightfully full of mischief too. 
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Lazybones ....... WOW!
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My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947):
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Not US but they're all mine, and my photos.
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Found 50 1995 DDO Lincoln cents back in 1995 in a $25 box from a southern Maryland bank. Used three of these cents in a trade for a uncirculated $2.5 gold quarter eagle Indian head that same year.
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Hmmmmm. Every once in a while the planets all line up and a photo comes out with a spectacular look. I have a few favorite photos, but funny thing...... they're not necessarily my favorite coins. If I have to pick just one, it might be this one:
This is a fairly pedestrian coin that looks stellar in the photo. The play of light over Sacagawea's clothing is fun and it gives the photo depth and presence. It's perhaps slightly over-exposed, but there is plenty of contrast to really show off the design.
I like playing around with PhotoShop, so this is my favorite collage. I think it adds something to the character of the coin:
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In terms of my own photography, I spent a lot of time getting the perfect shots for one of my favorite coins, and the resulting obverse photo is my all-time favorite. Here it is in high-def, unedited except for cropping.
A photo that impacted me greatly was the Trueview for a coin I never imagined I could own. But once I saw this image I knew I had to have it, and found a way!
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