Thanks, I value all of your opinions. So if I am selling this, is it advisable to show such a highly magnified picture? Apparently, it makes it look bad, but it is really is a gorgeous coin in person.
If you intend to sell a coin, the key is to make the images look as close as possible to the coin in hand. The images that you provided here are good enough if that's what it looks like.
It looks like you just had one light source. 2 lights , one on each side still shows the nicks, but not as deep looking. F15