Gorgeous Arkansas and Hawaiian! You hardly ever see Hawaiians with any color other than pink and yellow.
Without looking closely, my gut tells me it's good. When you get it, go to Dick Osburn and Brian Cushing's website and try to attribute it.
I finished a type set of these a few years ago, and unfortunately for me they're more affordable now. So many great designs, and some weird...
The coin is exceedingly original. That's pull-away toning on the reverse. The $600 bid is appropriate, as there could be some AU58-ness hiding...
Yup.
That VAM typically comes uncirculated, and I don't see anything in those pictures to make me concerned that it's not. My only concern is that...
I see no reason why it wouldn't grade MSsomething from the pictures, but there's a lot that can't be seen from the pictures.
There are quite a bit of hairlines visible, especially on the reverse, that aren't coherent enough to land it in a body bag, but are too numerous...
Very nice! I guess I would prioritize them by how much I'd want to keep them and then sell the low priority ones until the keepers are cheap or free.
I don't like it. There's another 1799 $1 in NGC 61 for sale on eBay, as well, but I'm not crazy about it, either. I like the ones that sold on...
Looks like an authentic VAM 5. What's the bit on the obverse close-up picture in the field between the 3rd and 5th right stars? It isn't on the...
1843. No photo available. Make a sketch from scratch? If you're an engraver by trade, that would be a waste of time if you had a coin handy in...
Very cool story, and an excellent article. Hopefully some internal mint communications turn up that shed more light on this coin.
One thing being overlooked is the fact that the camera allows the saturation to be set internally so that no post-processing is necessary. For...
Watch the presentation I linked to above. It's all about getting decent pictures on the cheap. Point and shoot cameras, a tripod, desk lamps.
Finally, here's the one with more normal lighting. I like it better. [ATTACH]
OK, that didn't take too long. Here's something that's close to axial lighting. It's actually a really cheap ring light, made by cutting a hole...
Polarization would make it worse because of the artifacts that would be induced by the slab plastic. A head-on, very diffuse light might work OK...
Nope. You can diffuse the heck out of other light and use enough lighting angles to fill all the and get a good picture of the toning. The coin,...
You may have PVC residue on the coin creating a haze that impairs the luster. An acetone soak is in order. From your pictures, I don't see a...
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