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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 6595250, member: 10461&quot;]Oh- one little bit of unsolicited advice, If you don&#039;t mind, since I&#039;m only now belatedly watching the video...</p><p><br /></p><p>You posed those silvers for the shot by shoving them back into the edge of the hole:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1265830[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Don&#039;t do that.&nbsp; You run the risk of scraping them against a pebble, or other unseen foreign object, and scratching them.</p><p><br /></p><p>I speak from sad personal experience, you see.&nbsp; I once put a scratch on an otherwise lovely 1916-D Barber quarter when it was peeking out the edge of a hole like that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mind you, I didn&#039;t stick it in the side of the hole to pose it for a photo (alas, I didn&#039;t carry a camera in those days).&nbsp; But I pulled it <i>out</i> of the edge of the hole when I saw it peeking, and unbeknownst to me, it was sitting on top of a hidden rock in the ground, and my pulling it out sideways like that scraped it across the top of the rock and put a tragic scratch in it.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you ever happen to dig and see a coin hanging out of the edge of the hole like that (I know you re-posed this particular photo after the fact, but you know what I mean), then carefully scoop away the whole (big) clump of dirt surrounding it until the coin falls free, so as not to risk damaging it.&nbsp; That adrenaline-filled &quot;peekaboo&quot; moment is so exciting- particularly when there&#039;s the flash of silver - that it&#039;s all too easy to enthusiastically jump the gun and snatch it outta there without thinking about the consequences.&nbsp; Pause for a moment and go really easy and gently once you&#039;ve sighted your target.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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