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Message:: [QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 2876939, member: 1892"]The more important point - the greater goal - here is not so much figuring out what the "best light" is for shooting coins, but learning what the differences in lighting do to the appearance of a coin. You can look at other people's images do until you're blue in the face, but until you compare the pics with the coin you're holding in-hand there will always be a mystery hidden to you. Any of the lighting discussed here can result in essentially the same image, or radically different images, depending on the photographer's choice of lighting placement and imaging parameters. And until you start looking in-hand at the coin under the same light with which you photograph it, you'll never know what it's "supposed" to look like. One of the biggest improvements in my photographic learning process happened when I started inspecting my coins under the same light with which I lit them under the camera.[/QUOTE]