Braided Hair Large Cent Question

I am thinking about picking this one up, but I have a few questions.

Does this look whizzed, cleaned, or artificially toned? Does anyone see any problems with it?

I have been looking over photos of whizzed coins, and I don't think it has been. The color is what has me thrown off. Just wanted some opinions on it. Also, I would be interested to hear what you would grade the coin as.

 

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Yeah looks cleaned and retoned

 

Agreed. Color is way off. Grade AU+/- Details.

 

Correct for overexposure first, then think about the coin. I'll have a go at it this afternoon when I'm home from work.

 

What program do you use to do that?

 

Thanks for the replies, it just seemed a little off. I'm going to pass on it.

 

Interesting coin, it's an N14 in die state c, with the nice rim cud around star 12. It's an intermediate die state coin, the cud eventually extends up to star 12. For a die state collector it's a great coin, but I agree it's been cleaned and has not retoned naturally.

 

Agree with beef, the color is unnatural, but it is still quite a nice coin. I'd be on it at the right price.

 

I use the Gimp. It's not for beginners, but it's pretty powerful. All I did for the following was reduce Levels by 50%:





That's the equivalent of just allowing less light to hit the camera sensor, the same as a faster exposure or narrower aperture or lower ISO. The color still looks off to me as well, but we've no idea what in-camera processing might have happened, especially if the camera thought the shot was washed-out and increased the color saturation to compensate. In-camera JPG processing is not necessarily designed to be "faithful," it's designed to create pleasing images for the customer, and oversaturation is the norm especially in less-expensive models.

We don't know anything about these shots other than they're large and well-focused. No EXIF data exists, no hint as to what processing happened either in the camera or afterward. If we assume the shooter left the camera to make choices about color, and the camera oversaturated the colors, this is what it might look like - all I did for this was "dial down" the saturation equally for all hues:





We have no way of knowing which of these three sets of images - if any of them - bear any faithfulness to the in-hand look of the coin. Part and parcel of learning to evaluate coins from images is to learn to evaluate images.

 

Glad you passed. This puppy has been buffed, not quite to the point of whizzing. Oh, that's just an opinion.