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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 7324702, member: 105098&quot;]is it possible to get clearer pictures of the area, and whole coin, straight on and in focus. It&#039;s hard to see what&#039;s exactly going on with the blur. clicking it bigger on the thread doesn&#039;t help. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Also, if you can, try to take a picture of it at about a 5 degree angle with a flash, attempting to highlight the toning color as brightly as possible. I&#039;m wondering if this is a shade of brown or red, or a dark shade of blue or it&#039;s actually black, like flat black.. the only way to get the color to pop is by getting light on it at the right angle to catch the rainbow. if it&#039;s opaque black, and light&#039;s not passing through it, it&#039;s terminal toning, and likely it will have affected the surface, but it&#039;s possible it&#039;s not that far yet also. Ideally we&#039;d need clear pictures, see what is or isn&#039;t the toning, and how far the toning goes.&nbsp; it might be as simple as a dip to remove the toning, But it may be too far gone in which case the contaminant that caused it to go black and flat has etched the surface under the toning and removing it won&#039;t fix that. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m hopeful by the magenta/russet brown color around the edges of it, that it&#039;s a lighting issue and it being out of focus and it&#039;s not quite as bad as it appears. thick, yes, but not quite to the point that it&#039;s impaired the luster underneath. </p><p>realistically, you&#039;d want to turn it like checking for cartwheel luster and angle it under a lamp and look into the toning, see how it reflects light. If it&#039;s not reflecting light at all, it&#039;s a problem, if it reflects some light it might be a problem, and if it &quot;colors up&quot;, then likely it&#039;s salvageable. </p><p><br /></p><p>it doesn&#039;t look good from this picture, but the out of focus and lighting angle might be hindering the appearance and making it look worse than it is.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lehigh96 has a great article on photographing toning.<a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/diffused-lighting-coin-photography-capture-the-color.56246/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/diffused-lighting-coin-photography-capture-the-color.56246/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/diffused-lighting-coin-photography-capture-the-color.56246/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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