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<p>[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 1572647, member: 4626"]This is as much to test my ability to get decent pictures of coins (got a new camera and seeing if it will work for this) as to show this coin off. I'm the original owner of this coin, and bought it when it first came out, when I was 10 years old and just getting into coin collecting. When I renewed my interest in coin collecting a few years ago, I submitted this to be graded (yeah I know this coin is worth less than what it costs to grade so don't bother pointing that out lol...) mainly to see what the grading process was like, and partly because I long since lost the original box this came in (halves were, and still are, put in rather flimsy packaging) and the plastic capsule it was in was badly scratched and chipped. Submitted it to ANACS; feel free to guess the grade if the pictures are good enough (I'll tell you what it graded after about say, a page worth of replies, or about three days, whichever happens first). BTW feel free to critique my picture-taking technique; I think this came out OK but is a pain to get it to focus on something as small as a coin, especially through a slab.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]215589.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]215590.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>P.S. Been gone from the board a long time; busy with other things and not had the disposable income to actively collect anyway. But it's great to be back!</p><p><br /></p><p>P.P.S. Yes those scratches appear to be on the slab, not the coin itself. If the pictures aren't good enough to guess a grade feel free to say so lol... I can take it. Constructive criticism on my photo technique would actually be appreciated. I think they came out pretty good considering, but I've seen better.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 1572647, member: 4626"]This is as much to test my ability to get decent pictures of coins (got a new camera and seeing if it will work for this) as to show this coin off. I'm the original owner of this coin, and bought it when it first came out, when I was 10 years old and just getting into coin collecting. When I renewed my interest in coin collecting a few years ago, I submitted this to be graded (yeah I know this coin is worth less than what it costs to grade so don't bother pointing that out lol...) mainly to see what the grading process was like, and partly because I long since lost the original box this came in (halves were, and still are, put in rather flimsy packaging) and the plastic capsule it was in was badly scratched and chipped. Submitted it to ANACS; feel free to guess the grade if the pictures are good enough (I'll tell you what it graded after about say, a page worth of replies, or about three days, whichever happens first). BTW feel free to critique my picture-taking technique; I think this came out OK but is a pain to get it to focus on something as small as a coin, especially through a slab. [ATTACH]215589.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]215590.vB[/ATTACH] P.S. Been gone from the board a long time; busy with other things and not had the disposable income to actively collect anyway. But it's great to be back! P.P.S. Yes those scratches appear to be on the slab, not the coin itself. If the pictures aren't good enough to guess a grade feel free to say so lol... I can take it. Constructive criticism on my photo technique would actually be appreciated. I think they came out pretty good considering, but I've seen better.[/QUOTE]
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