This one photographed well, I think (1970 IOM Manx cat crown)

Isle of Man: copper-nickel crown; Manx cat, 1970

150,000 mintage.

Just a semi-random, fairly inexpensive coin I found in a World lot I got in. I just like the way the photos came out.

(iPhone XR camera- no editing other than crop/resize/background.)

 

That’s a wonderful type. I’ve always liked the “coins on a coin” motif. That one really goes there!

 

Dozens and dozens of cats here over the decades, but never a stubtailed one.

 

The camera in this iPhone is its one redeeming feature, in my opinion. Other than that, I miss my old Samsung/Android phone. Personally, I’m not a big fan of iOS and Apple, generally speaking. But I’m quite pleased with the camera.

No, I can’t compete with the pros and their DSLRs and fancy equipment, but it’s nice knowing I can at least attain adequate coin photography most of the time now, and occasionally almost even good.

And having something easily portable is important to me. A few years back, I did buy a nice professional quality setup with a Canon DSLR and all that, but it was too complicated for me, and not portable enough. So I sold it and have gone with the simpler option.

When I need true professional quality photos for my better coins, I hire the pros to shoot ‘em for me.

 

A few more recent shots.

White balance might be a smidge off on a few of them, but not too bad.

Those flashy black-and-white proofs can be a little tricky. Definitely some trial and error here. By contrast, I find original grey circulated silver a joy to photograph, usually.