Picture Help Needed Asap

Scanners cannot depict luster or color very well, but they're good with detail and therefore suffice for technical grading. You don't want a colored background - coins should be shot on a monochromatic background - but with a scanner all you'd have to do is put a sheet of paper of the right color on top of the coin, under the cover. There's your background.

Concentrate on getting your phone parallel and as close to the coin as it can focus. Shoot some shots and post them here, and we'll see what we can do.

this is what I use, silverstacker2015. it is a nickel box and picture frame glass. the light reflects off the glass, so no glare back at the lense. any cheap camera that has a macro setting and white balance will do. shine any flashlight horizontally at the glass and shoot from above.


glass at a 45 degree angle. axial lighting. a black cloth liner would probably be even better.