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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 26667198, member: 10461&quot;]That&#039;s a lovely coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think a &quot;happy medium&quot; that&#039;s somewhere in between your two photos would be best.&nbsp; The first picture shows the contrast and the brightness of the silver nicely, but is a bit shadowy.&nbsp; The second picture shows more of the surfaces, but it looks just a <i>little</i> bit too &quot;hot&quot; to me, maybe?&nbsp; Then again, I&#039;d probably go with the second one.&nbsp; It&#039;s not too bad, really.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Why not?&nbsp; Didn&#039;t stop me from tinkering around with it in Lunapic.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Since you have the coin in hand, you could be a better judge of how the post-edits would look.</p><p><br /></p><p>My tinkering produced something that&#039;s probably farther off the mark than your second photo, but oh well.&nbsp; I was just playing around.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1701439[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s the problem with those accursed NGC prongs.&nbsp; Mind you, I am an unrepentant slabber of ancients myself, and I use NGC, but I always pay the 8 bucks for the (pre-slab) Photovision images.&nbsp; It&#039;s totally worth it.&nbsp; In fact, when I&#039;ve bought ancients that were <i>already</i> in NGC slabs, I&#039;ve paid for them to be sent back, cracked out, photographed in the raw, and reholdered.</p><p><br /></p><p>Compare the rather hazy, prong-ridden slab pix on this Athenian Owl with the Photovision images.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/08-slab-png.1695117/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;<img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/02-photovision-png.1695114/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/06-obv-png.1695115/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/07-rev-png.1695116/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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