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New Member
United States
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Hello, First coin I have posted - Bought a selfie light, set it over a cardboard tube and took these pictures. Grading appreciated, Thanks  
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Too much glare to see surface details clearly.  to the CCF! |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
36905 Posts |
Looks like a scan. We'll need sharper photos to grade from.
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Moderator
 United States
15566 Posts |
to the CCF We can't see the surfaces with those photos, too much glare. |
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New Member
 United States
8 Posts |
Thanks. I'm reading through the 'photographing coins' discussions and I'll try again.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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We'll need better photos with less glare.
Errers and Varietys.
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
18725 Posts |
1. turn off flash
2. place coin on flat surface with indirect natural light. maybe a window sill in a cloudy day. Use a black or white background to avoid any reflective color
3. move phone about 3in from coin
4. zoom in using your fingers until the coin comes into focus and fills the cameras view finder. if your phone has a portrait selection use that and then press and hold on the coin in the view finder to AF lock it
5. hold phone steady. if you can't then place something on either side of the coin (like books) at that distance and lay phone between them. this will hold it steady and allow you to zoom and take the photo without any blurring
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New Member
United States
8 Posts |
I took these using panzaldi's step-by-step   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
5687 Posts |
Much better photos, I'd say AU details, cleaned.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
36905 Posts |
What is the weight and diameter of this coin? Something just doesn't look right about this one.
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New Member
United States
8 Posts |
It weights 0.9367 ounces; as far as size, it is exactly the same diameter as all the other Morgan silver dollars in the collection |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
18725 Posts |
AU details (cleaned) way better photos
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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The parallel hairline scratches over the fields and devices going east-west and north-south on both sides of the coin are telltale signs of cleaning. The coin could be either AU or a weakly struck MS coin.
IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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Pillar of the Community
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