This was The "Cherry Pick" of the day. Plus the Family's collection got an early Christmas gift. A 50mm lens, for the Cannon. Anyways, it took me a few shots of each side to get these. I am really liking it. Anyways, I believe this happens to be a die state of FS-101, I couldn't believe it had Full Steps. The dark spot from the rim to the 4, A peeling lamination, or I cant tell because of the fold, it could be a retained strike through, There is also something else struck related on the obverse to help with the die state.
Did you combine two different images for this? If not it's the strangest looking bokeh I've ever seen, pretty cool though.
I didn't even realize that bokeh was a thing. Here is another image, this one of the cheek, and jaw line.
LOL, Bokeh is the out of focus area of an image with shallow depth of field. Portrait photographers are really the crazy people when it comes to good bokeh. They want their subject tack sharp with the backgrounds going very soft and unrecognizable. Typically this is done with a lens with a maximum aperture value of 1.4 or even 1.2. The specific part of @Pickin and Grinin's image that stood out as odd was the face profile of Jefferson. I could see two distinct outlines of his nose and chin. One is fairly distinct and the other is a soft glowing outline. It mad me think that the image was a combination of the same composition but shot using two different f/stops and merged to form a single image. I'm guessing it's an anomaly present in the optics. Are you using some sort of optical magnifier with your lens?
The coin is tipped at about a 45 degree angle, I has got to be an optic anomaly, The lens is a 50mm/f1.8 stm. I am not using an optical magnifier, unless you consider the use of magnification within the program. The photo was taken at f/2.5.
I am slowly adding to the early Jefferson nickels, I didn't expect it to be a DDO. Let alone full steps. The peeling lamination/ retained trike through could be a negative to the non variety collector, but it is a bonus to me. Here are the pop and auction results for a FS-101.http://m.pcgscoinfacts.com/Coin/Grade/569494/65
With there being like 56 known rpm's for the 45 D you may just have 2 varieties in one coin. I say the chances are greater then less.
