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Four pictures of the same coin (my scan, my photo, Todd's photo, and NGC's "Internet Imaged&quo
lordmarcovan
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Forgive me for posting a Darkside coin, but I think it illustrates perfectly how different one coin can look in a variety of photographs and scans. The devil of it is, I still don't think any of these "nailed" it.
Here's my first picture of the coin, done on a cheapo scanner. This is sort of how it looked in the seller's pictures when I bought it off eBay, only his pictures were even smaller and darker (more like the last picture in this post, actually.)
So when I got it, I was delighted to find some beautiful toning that wasn't in the pictures. Here's my feeble attempt at capturing the colors with some handheld shots on my old Mavica camera.
Now, we've got a more professional photograph from Todd (blu62vette):
And, last (and definitely least), we have the images NGC charged me three bucks for, with their "Internet Imaged" service. Now, mind you, I did not expect something of the caliber of an expensive PCGS "TrueView" photoset for three bucks. But heck, man- I could've done better with my scanner! (In looking at some of the other pictures I got with that submission, I think NGC is also using a scanner.)
(Edit to add: their originals were a bit bigger than this.)
Here's my first picture of the coin, done on a cheapo scanner. This is sort of how it looked in the seller's pictures when I bought it off eBay, only his pictures were even smaller and darker (more like the last picture in this post, actually.)
So when I got it, I was delighted to find some beautiful toning that wasn't in the pictures. Here's my feeble attempt at capturing the colors with some handheld shots on my old Mavica camera.
Now, we've got a more professional photograph from Todd (blu62vette):
And, last (and definitely least), we have the images NGC charged me three bucks for, with their "Internet Imaged" service. Now, mind you, I did not expect something of the caliber of an expensive PCGS "TrueView" photoset for three bucks. But heck, man- I could've done better with my scanner! (In looking at some of the other pictures I got with that submission, I think NGC is also using a scanner.)
(Edit to add: their originals were a bit bigger than this.)
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Ron
It's a tiny little thing- comparable to a US silver three-cent piece or maybe a half dime, but a bit thicker than those. And yes, that is a palm tree on the reverse.
Or with a crayon!
I think you paid them to take a picture of their own product. There are no closeups of the coin?
Amazing!
The more qualities observed in a coin, the more desirable that coin becomes!
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It's sort of a moot point on my coin, which cost me a whopping ten bucks. Like I said, I just paid more for the plastic it's in than for the coin itself. But it's such a lovely little coin- I've had a real soft spot for it these past few years. D'you ever have one like that... a coin that technically shouldn't be worth all the fuss, and yet, on some sentimental level, it is?
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The photos for Charmy's coin look exceptional.