A Selection of World Coins

The craftsmanship on the Minh Mang coins was consistently excellent even for the lower value cash. I have quite a few.

 

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Still healthy my man. I busted up my right elbow when I was 70, so I lost some mass in my right arm. No more bench pressing, but I stay under 200 pounds. I take it easy now, I research Biblical manuscripts, and maintain my website, and I collect coins, and English Bibles of the 20th century. My wife also keeps me busy. Years ago in Hemet California, I had a landscaping business, long days and hours, good money!
Gary in Washington

 

Below is a very attractive Mexican coin, 20 centavos. Nice high grade coins of this series are really beautiful. Nothing like bronze! Again shot through mylar, axial.

 

Here is a Beautiful Japanese 1964 1000 Yen coin commemorating the XVIII Summer Olympics games held in Tokyo. The obverse depicts Mount Fuji with cherry blossoms.

 

Just curious, this is obviously a high grade coin. But its color is subdued? It does not "glow", may I ask if this image you posted, perfectly displays the coin's color? It seems to be kind of a flat brownish for bronze.
Gary in Washington

 

I think it is a tad over lit in these photos; but the color is close...

 

Little different lighting

 

Better, I suppose the highlights in my images display too much yellow, I used several different bulbs, no adjustment other than "levels" in Photoshop. And I think "Bloom" in Photoscape. Bloom, does just that, the colors bloom. I would say that the actual color is somewhere between our two. Thanks for communicating.
Gary in Washington, look out all you northeners, more rain snow coming!!

 

My Minh Mang looks more like this:

A cast coin. Your silver beauty is beyond my budget!
Gary in Washington

 

I try to get the light on the coin in the shot and only use a photo editor to crop and resize and add text.
Here is an uncropped shot of my 65. I am trying to show the luster on these coins. I find that axial lighting is great on proof and high luster coins to show the details but it mutes the luster.

 

I also used axial lighting, that is the primary reason why I use Photoshops "Levels" as it removes the "mist", or mutted luster. I also surrounded the shots with white filters, which adds lots of "glow" into the shooting environment. Often I use black, but the coin is in a 2x2.
Again thanks.
Gary in Washington

 

Here is my brown 1967 20 Centavos that shows the details pretty well.

 

Here are a few I have shots of. The bottom one is zinc and suffers from the usual corrosion.





This one is a large cash and is probably a forgery. It looks very good but is just a little bit smaller and lighter than the one in Allan Barker's book on Vietnam cash.

 

A bit frustrating as on my camera screen this 67 is sharp and much more rich in color than the 65 ir 66 and yet when the photos get transmitted to my phone they lose resolution. Probably need to hard wire my camera to my laptop...

 

Mine is not as brown.

 

Now we are getting closer to a nice color of the actual coin. Nice photos. Thanks RAZZ.
Gary in Washington

 

Below is a large coin from Bhutan, KM# 50. Minted in Germany for Bhutan. Shot through mylar. Interesting hat with the bird on top! Indicates a ruler.

 

Below is a rather rare coin from Tibet, Y#28.1. Lots of varieties exist for these coins, care must be taken to attribute, I think I have this one correct:


Gary in Washington

 

Below is a nice 5 Paise from Nepal, these are often hammered, and can be somewhat crude. I think this one was minted in the modern sense: I like the footprints above the swords!