So I’ve been trying to read the variety vista site and found this 1966 “ the buckets” more caught my eyes because it wasn’t a wheat penny . I have a hard time identifying true doubling vs machine. But I’m learning. This penny looks like possibly a FS 101 with maybe machine doubling on the reverse or possibly a DDR . Input ?
is photo #10 not clear enough for a full photo? What’s the best way to get nice clear photos of coin? Trying to zoom in at the right distance above the coin seems to produce mediocre results. the magnifying attachment I have can only do the zoomed in pics .
what you may also want to do is to put coins on either a white or black piece of paper. On any texture your camera will tend to want to focus on the texture rather than the coin. Also cameras even cell cameras are pretty light sensitive. So make sure you use a very bright room (for your camera sensor and not your eyes) Also one type of light source (sun vs inside lights which may vary color which affects the image color) without direct light for the best, sharpest images. Also make sure you aren't too close otherwise the camera won't get focus.
I use an old webcam which is quite hard to focus on the coins but I also use photoscape to crop my photos and make sure they are seen well enough for those to see what I'm talking about
Thank you for the replies, I will experiment with the lighting and surface background. The main reason I was thinking DDO1 was because of GOD letters . Which I do see on a fair amount of coins and it looks “stretched” in a way . Now that I look side by side I can see the differences. Eghh
The coin's lettering ( L) in liberty and (G O....) in GOD are indicators of DDd (Die Deterioration , a sign of overuseage of the die causing the face of the die to physically spread. IMO, Jim
