Im Back :)

Have not been interested in coins at all till just recently. Mainly working on finishing my drag car up for racing season next year. heres a coin i recently snagged for practically nothing at a local show.

pics are straight off the camera, no OJ here

 

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Welcome back! Just curious, how much was that Lincoln? It is very nice!

 

got it for $40

should grade high

 

Very Nice! Congrats!
Steve

 

Wow! That obverse is super Technicolor!!! Very nice!

 

Only 40$???? It is georgeous! Glad you are back. Good luck with race season. Keep an eye on the gold.

I do not usually like pink, but on Lincoln it is WOW!

 

Nice coin! What kind of lighting was it shot under?

 

thanks! i loved it as soon as i saw it!

two VisionMax tensor lights with daylight bulbs. Nikon D90 with Sigma 105mm

 

Glad to have you back

 

I'm wondering what it looks like without the saturation turned up to the max. I'm not trying to throw cold water on your find, but we all know how difficult it is to photograph copper and have it come out the same way it looks in the copper.

For some reason I suspect this is a more accurate presentation, but you can see the coin in the copper and can judge better.



Either way, it's a beautiful coin and you can be congratulated.

 

Thanks but I do not saturate my photos. Copper is really not complicated to photograph if you have the right equipment. I would understand why you might think it was juiced since everyone juices these days, but i only pick out the best quality of coins. But thank you for your input though.

 

Welcome back. Please post the full exif of that photo, like Marshall, I believe there's something odd going on with that capture, and it is certainly possible to "juice" the photo via settings in the camera rather than in post-processing. Copper simply doesn't look like that, or at least I've never seen a copper coin in my years of collecting that did.

 

The image has been saturated even if the camera did it as the details are starting to distort from the adjustment.....the coin may look close to that in hand but something has been done to the image even if it's to try to make the image look like the coin does in hand which there is nothing wrong with....

 

I will retake the picture when I get home for work.

 

Great coin and love the toning. Sorry I am a NASCAR guy, but love drag as well. Maybe we can get Cointalk to co-sponsor your car. I bet there are a lot of coin collectors at the track

 

Thank you. I just finished my twin turbo mustang. Making 1200rwhp

 

What year model?

 

When you do, kindly take a note of the following settings:

Picture Control (in particular, have you chosen "vivid")
Contrast
Brightness
Saturation
Active D-Lighting

 

Fixed it guys. since I havent photographed coins in about 8 months and I had it set to a different dial than I normally use for coins so it was kind of off. Well here is the pictures right from the camera.

 

its a 2000