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<p>[QUOTE="Get Real, post: 2508917, member: 81585"]You made an assumption based where the brightest light in the picture is, but you didn't have all of the information to perform a proper educated guess. To be very specific my scope was directly over the coin at 90 degrees to the coin and it has 8 "super bright" LEDs around the lens in a "Halo" pattern but I was still getting some shadowing affects so I also used my even brighter hand held miniature LED Flash light which was rotated around the coin in an orbital - semi elliptical manor until all of the devices could be seen clearly, then "CLICK!!!" I took the picture.</p><p><br /></p><p>I mean no disrespect but I have the coin here, I have many magnification devices which I use and I would never write something on here without first doing due diligence to give accurate information so other people like yourself can help answer questions. Besides my scope I have several "Old School Magnifiers" that are self-contained and non digital which I used to look at the areas that I circled. I assure you with absolute certainty that they are not incuse but are raised, micro cracks as I said in a my previous comment.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Get Real, post: 2508917, member: 81585"]You made an assumption based where the brightest light in the picture is, but you didn't have all of the information to perform a proper educated guess. To be very specific my scope was directly over the coin at 90 degrees to the coin and it has 8 "super bright" LEDs around the lens in a "Halo" pattern but I was still getting some shadowing affects so I also used my even brighter hand held miniature LED Flash light which was rotated around the coin in an orbital - semi elliptical manor until all of the devices could be seen clearly, then "CLICK!!!" I took the picture. I mean no disrespect but I have the coin here, I have many magnification devices which I use and I would never write something on here without first doing due diligence to give accurate information so other people like yourself can help answer questions. Besides my scope I have several "Old School Magnifiers" that are self-contained and non digital which I used to look at the areas that I circled. I assure you with absolute certainty that they are not incuse but are raised, micro cracks as I said in a my previous comment.[/QUOTE]
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