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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ewomack, post: 2270193, member: 15588&quot;]The well-known New York merchant M.L. Marshall, apart from selling coins, issued a few interesting tokens during the Civil War years. Most remain easy to obtain, such as the fish token shown below. These photos represent my first attempts at numismatic photography using a Sony A58 camera and a desk lamp. Though the color didn&#039;t turn out exactly (the token has more of a rusted brown penny color and has the exact size of a US cent at 19mm), I&#039;m fairly happy with the detail captured considering the relatively rudimentary tools used. I could not get the obverse to focus consistently, probably because: 1. I used crude lighting and 2. I didn&#039;t use a tripod, but handheld the camera vicariously over the fish and 3. I probably didn&#039;t use the ideal background. So I show these both for feedback and advice and also because I love the fish token that openly advertises for &quot;rare coin&quot; at the dawn of American numismatics. An ad for M.L. Marshall found online also follows. I can only imagine the scintillating stock he carried.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.getmilked.com/pics/fishy_front.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://www.getmilked.com/pics/fishy_back.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://images.orca-online.org/u/17/MarshallAd-1862.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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