LOL.... Are you familiar with the 'Blame Canada' song from South Park? Just substitute Canada with Paddy and were golden. HAHAHAHA!! In all seriousness, I do thank you for turning me onto the '38-D Buffalo. There was a time where I just did not appreciate a T2 Buffalo, I cared only for the T1. But the '38-D comes with an amazing strike and gorgeous eye appeal with a relatively low price tag. Everything I love. I have not been bitten by the half dime bug yet, I'm more interested in the Seated Liberty dimes, although I don't currently have any yet. I've been wanting to get a nice MS 1838 Lg Stars to add to my collection. The 1838 Lg Stars is what got me interested in coins when I was a kid, it's what my grandmother gave me for Christmas one year.
Didn't seem to do too much on your coin. Here's my picture pre editing and then after Same picture, just color correction on the right.
Inspiring nonetheless. Wow. I think I can bring a single light closer to even out the lighting. Then an adjustment to the color may work better. I’ve got work to do here.
I understand we all have our likes when it comes to a series...but the buffalo nickel is to me what American coinage is all about. So classic.... find a well struck buffalo with a touch of color and you got a masterpiece of Americana.
Just got the grades on these. I was nearly spot on. My guesses were AU58 on the trade dollar and MS64+ BN on the Indian Cent. They gave the trade AU58 and the Indian MS64 BN.
Thanks again! I invested in the current version of Adobe Photoshop Elements 2019. They have a haze removal function that I applied to the original images in my first animation. Then I rebuilt the animation from those images. I have not retried this with photos taken through the light reflection, but the photos through the holder are vastly improved by just this one step. Before After Haze removal
Lovely. I like those pastel traces of iridescence. Hopefully the flyspeck at 3:00 on the obverse is inert. I don't think I ever completely got over my enjoyment of a nice bright steel cent, ever since I first saw one in my cousin's album back in the 1970s.