A gentleman brought in a huge box of world coins in littleton envelopes. It looks like they are from the early to mid 70s. I looked through a few of them, and was shocked to see the toning on some of them, so I purchased a small lot of them. It average out to 25 cents a coin. Even back then, it appears that littleton was overpriced. My camera does not capture toning well, so these look better in real life. I LOVE this one. This one has wild toning, sadly it has many hairlines, and the back has a pit in the metal. The rainbow 50 centavos. This coin looks like I messed with the white balance, but it really looks like this.
I know that you can take a better picture than this! Now I challenge you to take the coin out of its holder & take a good photo which is indicative of how the coin looks in-hand. With the all the toning, I would suspect that it might take a couple pics with different lighting to do the coin justice. Here is a Philippine coin from my collection:
After an hour with a different light, and working with photoscape. I forgot that the 50 centavo had a little brother with him. A half penny and a "fishy" coin from cyprus. The nicest mexico 1 centavo, shown with the other 5 toners. Some more coins from Mexico. A nicely toned south africa coin.
I was amazed that anyone would post that phone picture of the coin in a holder but I am absolutely blown away at the follow up posting by the same photographer of such really fine photos. I personally prefer photos with a little space around rather than touching each other but that is a matter of preference not right and wrong. It is easy to see now why the coins were purchased.
You've got a good deal, Sir. 25 cents for each coin is a big fortune! I'd say that a real price is from 1,5 to 3 $ for each.
