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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;pr69, post: 2306720, member: 74498&quot;]Thank you for the helpful comments, everyone.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Wow, that&#039;s a very nice MS66 example, DUNK 2.&nbsp; Thanks for sharing.&nbsp; Also, with respect to PCGS Photograde, I have their app on my iPhone and it shows Peace Dollar examples (same as <a href="http://www.pcgs.com/photograde/#/Peace/Grades" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pcgs.com/photograde/#/Peace/Grades" rel="nofollow">http://www.pcgs.com/photograde/#/Peace/Grades</a>), and it helps me a little, but I still find some of the examples confusing.&nbsp; For example, their MS67 Peace Dollar has tremendously better eye appeal to me than their MS68 example.&nbsp; So I have consulted it occasionally, but when referencing it for my Kennedy Half Dollar collection I have found their photo examples to be even more confusing (their Kennedy Half Dollars have lots of toning which makes it more difficult for me to see the traits needed to certify a coin in an upper Mint State).</p><p><br /></p><p>With regards to the strike -- I guess you are right, the hair looks very nice and was struck well.&nbsp; I was referring more to the text on the perimeter, which Cascade pointed out could be due to a flattened die, which had never crossed my mind.&nbsp; Interesting.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now on to photography -- thanks for the positive feedback.&nbsp; My setup was as follows:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Halogen desk lamp positioned 12&quot; above the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. iPhone 6 Plus, using the stock camera app.&nbsp; I positioned the phone about 6&quot; above the coin, and moved things around a bit to reduce shadows.</p><p><br /></p><p>3. I&#039;m attaching the initial photo to this post -- you will see it has a brown hue.&nbsp; I was happy with this photo because it accurately shows all of the details in the coin, however it was not color accurate.&nbsp; This coin has a lot of mint luster and is definitely shiny silver in color, not brown or toned at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>4. So I opened the original image on my Mac in the Preview app (included with the Mac OS X operating system), and moved the Saturation slide a bit until the color was accurate (to my eye) compared to the actual coin.&nbsp; My goal was not to &quot;doctor&quot; the image, but rather to produce as accurate of a representation as possible.&nbsp; I&#039;m happy with the result.&nbsp; Except it seems impossible to capture mint luster in a photo.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]464250[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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