can some one help me guage value

I can definatly see in this picture it is an S not a D well it was exiting for aminute or three LOL but just to be sure I'll post this I took aboutb 14 photos before fuinding one that really showed the mark well here is the best of them. I am now learning my camera has a better eye than I do.

 

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thank you.

 

Its also one of the most counterfeited coin. Your gonna blow me away if you show a legit 1916-D

 

Looks like an S - Take a straight on shot...

 

loading some now

 

well I gotta say if it is a d its probably legit I cant see some one working so hard to make a dime and drop it at a cash register. at this point though I am pretty sure its an S but again I ajm loding these shots to let you guys judge

here I loaded the highest quality image I could get and cropped it so you can see it better than I can with my eyes





IMO its an S, no matter how cool it would be if it were a D its definatly not.

 

Turn the Flash off. Turn the Macro lens on. Your looking like some of our beloved ebay sellers now.

Ruben

 

looks like an S to me too, but get a magnifying glass to be sure. You may want to invest in a jeweler's loupe to use. Makes me want to get a part time job at the stop n go!

 

F ebay, I dont play any of that funny crap, I am a hardcore coral buyer/seller and people on ebay love photoshop, I am not doing any of that.

I will snag another couple pics without flash gimme about 5-10 to load and crop.

 

I put the coins on a brown faux leather case to try and reduce backwash of light and set the camera to no flash (camera is a nikkon s50 digi) hope this helps out. I gotta say taking pics of coins is way easier than taking picks of corals.

the second pic is so you can see the time and date stamp on the photo.

 

Definitely an S but this was definitely worthwhile !

 

thanks for your help after shooting a few pics and croppign through them I was pretty sure it was an S but hey it was exciting for a minute.


I know that CNCman said something about a 21 there is no 21 in my mercury coins it is a 27 maybe that you saw, I checked them over and I definatly dont have a 21. unfortuantly this noob has no random super cools.. LOL unless yopu guys see some thing in my collection that I missed.....

 

well, I like Mercs. They are a perfect dime design.

Ruben

 

I was all kinds of psyched about the new quarters because I am obsessed with hawaii, I was so mad when the hawaii quarter was so bland looking. there are so many of the quarters that they obviously spent a lot of time designing and almost nothing for probably the 2nd most diverse melting pot in our nation.

 

Just because someone uses photoshop to edit a photo does not mean they are a crook. The idea is to present a photo that most accurately depicts the actual appearance of the coin. Even for common date circulated Mercury Dimes, a great photo is worth a thousand words.



I don't condone juicing photos because that means the photo doesn't look like the actual coin. Feel free to read this thread about photoshopping coin photos.

http://www.cointalk.com/forum/t41839/

Did you really get that Peace Dollar for face value, that is awesome.

 

he has more than one morgan as well

 

yeah I understand using phtoshop for cropping and such but the reference I was making is akin to corals people doctor pics so the coral is not anywhere near a true representation and you cant ever prove it because corals do shift and morph ( the actual colors and body shape change under different lighting and flow rates) I would never play :"funny mony" games or tweak to suit for gain, its pathetic. I was just tryign to get a shot that showed what people were looking for/at emphasis on the mint mark if I have to enhance shadow to highlight a worn mint mark I dont consider that funny or doctoring as long as people know what was done. I shot some from an angle because I thought it might add emphasis to the mark to make it easier to see btu I wouldnt buff a pic to eliminate scratches or tweak color to make it look toned. do you know what I mean? I would not go out of my way to misrepresent a coin.

 

yeah I got that 1889 and a 1880 peace dollar both at face, because some one bought a pack of cigarettes with them.