Sounds to me like you found a spanish cob, clipped. In each of two diametric quarters of the Hapsburg shield stamped on cobs, a lion is pictured...
Can someone please provide guidance as to attribution? I acquired this specimen today from a dealer in Vienna VA. I used my new axial lighting...
Awesome specimen indeed! I'm showing only 36,103 minted.
My experience with them... It took only once. [IMG]
What do you mean "without manipulating the image"? Are you photoshopping and adjusting the controls?
And here's the setup. As described previously, the hinged doubled picture frame laying one side horizontally on top of the copy stand surface,...
Thanks. It's a little clumsy... I'm not looking to do rapid high volume. It's also important that whatever setup I use, it doesn't require a...
I used the 2 second timer on the camera. Here's my first try, with the setup I described last night using a double-paned photo frame. Note that...
Naw... I put them back into storage to rummage through some other time.
Maybe I'm missing something.... but wouldn't a timer also work?
Indeed. That's precisely what I was thinking. I inherited a bunch of Whitmans that were filled during the 60's, and that's what had been done to...
My use of the words 'justify it all you want' was a poor choice. It wasn't my intent to come across the way I did at anyone here in particular....
Gotcha. Thanks for clarifying. I was thinking, based on what I'm seeing with setups, that some sort of adjustable hinge is in order for the...
As I said before, this is great stuff :thumb: Here's a link that I came across about different effects of lighting, including a bit about axial...
Beauty. Must be awesome being able to see it up close first-hand like that :)
The raw ones are often the worst... with no TPG grade, sellers oftentimes price [and many times even advertise a grade] that's way too high.
Here's some of their feedback:...
$99.99 for shipping. I do believe that's against ebay rules. That's about half the cost for them to fly the specimen down to hand over...
Love it!
The dynamics are interesting... because a lot sellers who I purchased specimens from before, for market-rate BIN prices, or won from in auctions...
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