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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;phankins11, post: 2077232, member: 70703&quot;][USER=73571]@Steve Koontz[/USER] Can you get a pick of just one coin close up.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m pretty interested in these, at least from the context of where they came from and how it happened and what that mark is.</p><p><br /></p><p>Do you have documentation of these being given to you in 1999?</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding your pics....</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If you&#039;re using your phone I find that plenty of light over head is best, the closers to the light source the better. Try to brace your arm or hand to steady the shot. If you are using a camera, try to take a close up shot of the coin with the camera in macro mode. You can usually do this by setting it to the setting that has a little icon of a tulip like below.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]385729[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This sets the camera to the best settings for a close up picture. Now days even phone cameras have a macro setting too.</p><p><br /></p><p>It would be good to get 2 separate photos of two separate coins that way the mark can be compared side by side for location and match.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also is this mark incused (impressed or stamped into the coin) or in relief (raised up from the field up like the letters and portrait). The answer to that could potentially help determine when the marks were made and whether or not its a mint error or something that&#039;s knows as PMD (post minting damage) which just means something done to the coin after the minting process.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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