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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kanga, post: 331860, member: 9270&quot;]I&#039;ve known for quite a while that getting <u>good</u> images of proof coins is a problem.</p><p>The very shiny surfaces cause havoc with getting a representative image.</p><p>Now I&#039;ve got some added problems:</p><p>1. The coins are in slabs</p><p>2. They are older proofs and the surfaces seem less even.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Here&#039;s what I&#039;ve got so far:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://home.comcast.net/~dcderoo/test2 002-50.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Frankly I couldn&#039;t tell at a glance that this is a proof coin if I didn&#039;t already know.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>And is the graininess normal for a proof from this time period?</p><p>My eye doesn&#039;t see it, but it shows under low power (3x).</p><p>I haven&#039;t tried any recent proofs so I don&#039;t know how they look as images.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Is this a reasonable image of a proof from that year?</p><p>If not, I&#039;ll take suggestions as how to do it better.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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