I am a lucky person today ! I was waiting for my family to return from a trip to Arizona ( they travel late ) and I was looking at my 1909-S lincolns as I was going to sell one. I hate to sell nice early lincolns, but I was considering. This one was in a secondary album and as I looked at it, the m/m looked strange. so I put it under the stereo microscope at 10X, and and then 2 close ups The odd thing was, an 1909-S/S Horizontal was on my want list to purchase after I sold my 1909-S :thumb: Just had to show it. Thanks for looking Jim
Nice coin, Not knowing much about RPM's, I'm thinking the mintmark is tilted to the right. Is the little round diechip to the right of the S found only in this RPM?
Hi Harryj, The "die chip" is actually part of the serif of the upper loop of the "s" mintmark that was applied in a horizontal direction and then a vertical "s" mint mark was repunched in the proper direction over it. Value wise , it is not much over the normal price of a 1909-S, but since it is in the Redbook listing of Lincolns, I was happy to find it. Jim
The photos were all taken with a canon 590IS. Wonderful and inexpensive camera on Amazon now at lesser price than I paid . The first was taken with the camera on macro setting, and the others were from holding the camera up to one of the eyepieces on my stereo microscope ( B&L 7-30X). The camera has Image Stabilization which has improved my photography a lot Jim
very nice Jim, good eye. Ill have to remember to keep lookng for those, Id sayh ts might be an XF AU slider. Very nice, and a nice woodgrain appeal to it
In the microscope photos, the light source fits into a tube at the back of the scope pointing down to the coin at a 15 degree angle ( tungsten) The whole coin photos was taken using the setup below. which is a light and a piece of glass ( a picture frame with the back removed, held at a 45 degree slant towards the coin. The light hits the glass and much is reflected directly down on the coin. The camera faces down to the coin looking through the glass ( flash would be counterproductive here). Since this photo, since spock and GD were talking about fire, I replaced it with a daylight "coiled" fluorescent bulb which works even better as since it is much cooler, I can crimp an aluminum foil reflector around it to concentrate the light better. Since the camer is 8mp, I can crop out even the smallest coin with fairly good detail. Hope I explained it well enough :rolling: Jim
Thanks, I'll try the set up you are useing. For now I'm useing a 2.1mp camera on macro with a 30x magnifier in front of the lens.
That's an alternative I also used when I had an older camera with lower resolution and also with a sony that had poor macro focus ability. Also , paint chip samples from home depot make good backgrounds. I use "bright white" for color balance backgrounds and the blues and greys for some "shiney" coins. Nice photo for the camera arrangement. Jim
Good eyes Jim , I bought a 1909-S over S late last year and I still can't see the difference between a regular '09-S , guess I need reading glasses too . Also you have very good luck as you were going to buy the same coin , rzage
Isn't it amazing how parts of the body goes just when you find more need of them My optometrist was once my student, and now she says she is retiring and I need to find another Time does fly! Jim
