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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Evan8, post: 25307156, member: 74343&quot;]It looks cleaned or polished to me. If you use two lights you can achieve a nice cartwheel luster shot, <b>if the coin hasn&#039;t been cleaned</b>. With your single light picture, the surfaces look too uniform or flat, which tells me it has been cleaned.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is one of my examples with axial lighting and a point and shoot camera:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1616651[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1616652[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>These aren&#039;t even that great since they were done with a cheap camera. Notice how the bright spots along the rim create an &quot;X&quot; pattern, that&#039;s cartwheel luster. When a coin like a Morgan Dollar gets cleaned or polished this affect disappears as cleaning and polishing alters the surfaces of the coin where light doesn&#039;t reflect the same.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have zero photography experience and I was frustrated with how my photos turned out, so I bought a Sony A700 and a Minolta 100mm macro lens and now I can get pictures like this that I took of this 1880 S:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1616654[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1616655[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Still not professional by any means but the detail is better (a little out of focus on the obverse). This one sucks to shoot due to purple and tan toning (depending on lighting angles) and the obverse is DMPL while the reverse is more PL. The reverse shows that &quot;X&quot; or cartwheel luster very well.</p><p><br /></p><p>If I were you I would get a second light, especially for taking pictures.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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