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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ptHoneyBadger, post: 8151477, member: 110356&quot;]Thanks. I don&#039;t have a good photo setup yet. I&#039;m just using a USB digital microscope, which has pretty good resolution, but no color or exposure setting on the camera. I can do color and light editing on the photos to get a more realistic representation of the color, but I hate doing that for fear that I am in some way &quot;enhancing&quot; the photo. For these photos, I just fiddled with the ambient lights to demonstrate the toning I see with my eye. Then I had to really light it up to show the hairlines, which are hard to see with the eye and even a loupe without harsh lighting.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your explanation of the hairlines is in line with what I have always thought. I just always read so much about &quot;polished&quot; and &quot;cleaned&quot; coins that I always wonder which hairlines &quot;bad&quot; and which are to be expected on a circulated coin. I think I can spot the obvious polishing, whizzing, and harsh cleaning; but, I haven&#039;t looked at enough coins with an expect to pick up on more subtle cleaning marks.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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