Please Grade This 1972 Lincoln It Is Toned

Oh! coinfrog I was all proud of myself. The pictures are close to the actual color of the coin. It has toned with some greens and browns. These pictures with the scope give you detail but not color. You busted my bubble. Back to the drawing board. You didn't see many hits because there aren't many.

The obverse field disturbances hold it back from what I see.

65+RB

Looks like a nice coin, I see you struggling to show the toning. You need to try to move your lighting so it reflects back to the camera. It needs to be direct enough it bounces off the surface.

When I do these pictures my lighting normally is 11-3 o'clock (north/east) and about 8-12" from the coin surface. It's a very bright LED, I sent you a link.

Pay attention to the camera angles I use. Try putting your eye above the lens, don't use the LCD, hold the camera at the right angle and move your light (and camera slightly if needed) until you see the colors with your eye - then snap. Again, don't trust the LCD, after you snap look at what you got. It will be better than what the display was showing.

This 1970D is a perfect example, you can replicate once you get your lighting corrected. We have the SAME camera - it's in the light at this point.

It might help if you just hold the coin under your lighting and rotate it around to see what angle the colors come out. The angle between your eye, coin and the light should match the angle you need to position the camera. If you can see the colors with your eye, they normally pick up on the camera.

PS - look where my shadow is in the pics above, that tells you where the light is positioned.