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I Thought This Was Unusual For A Coin.

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What do you find unusual about it?

The reverse design is the One Pillar Pagoda in Hanoi, which is an unusual enough structure.

If it's the colour treatment of that particular image (yellow on white), I'm not sure if it's an artist rendering, or someone doing some enamelwork. But the standard coin doesn't look like this (see the image in the Numista link posted by jbuck above).
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This is a standard coin.
The field of white with yellow / gold devices was unexpected.
Never saw that before when photographing coins.
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It is a photo.
Which is why I posted such an unexpected result.
This may be proof:
I tilt the coin in the light and see how differently the color reflects.
I've never lied or jerked anyone around here on this forum.
I later thought maybe I should post in the photography forum.
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Oh! I see now! It is like an inverse cameo photo; white fields instead of black.

You did a great job providing the second angled shot of the coin.

I was under the false assumption it was a photo you found and never intended to accuse you personally of doing anything wrong. I offer my apologies for doubting the photo's authenticity.
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Inverse cameo- I didn't think of it that way.
So yes you are right.
And I see it during some sessions.
Coin placement, lighting angles, diffiusers and reflectivity can produce a "flip-flop" of field resulting in either black or white.
A coin on white paper can be white background, or it may flip to a black background even though no black paper is used.
Just a phenomena of my equipment and how it is all manipulated.

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Very interesting. Thank you for sharing your experience.


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I later thought maybe I should post in the photography forum.
Not a bad idea. I will move this to photography forum to attract more eyes and comments.
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Looks like someone was doing axial lighting on a brilliant/cameo proof with very flat fields, and then adjusted the image brightness to blow out the entire field. Not a great photo technique but for sure gives a very interesting result.
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