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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;nerosmyfavorite68, post: 25369042, member: 134416&quot;]Thanks, it shows how much I know about U.S. coins.&nbsp; I can tell you about every Roman emperor, but I know next to nothing about U.S. coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m in the U.S.A., in answer to Barney&#039;s question.&nbsp; I often buy ancients from overseas dealers, however.&nbsp; Perhaps that&#039;s where the confusion came from.</p><p><br /></p><p>My dad had purchased some Byzantine coins for me at the local coin shop, and also waiting for me was... an 1885 Morgan in a staple-flip.&nbsp; It looks pretty nice, for a blast-white coin.&nbsp; There&#039;s very few dings. 63+ is annotated on the back of the flip. It&#039;s pretty sharp.&nbsp; If you were on the ancient coins board, you&#039;d know about my chronic inability to photograph coins.&nbsp; The owner of the shop is somewhat of a bigwig in dealing American coins, according to the fellow at work who also deals in sports cards.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Byzantine coins were very dark, but that&#039;s my meat and potatoes.&nbsp; I was able to quickly ID every one of those, even though some of the coins were decrepit.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, I&#039;ve seen people use a cell phone perched on a soup can and achieve passable results.&nbsp; I&#039;m told that perhaps the problem is that my Samsung Note 20 Ultra doesn&#039;t have autofocus (although someone mentioned something about telephoto). I cleaned off my disused photography station, so perhaps I&#039;ll try this weekend. I have a DSLR, but no macro lens, and my tripod (the rotating part) flops over if I try to lock in the camera facing straight down.</p><p><br /></p><p>A Morgan is quite a heavy coin.&nbsp; If I had to go with one type of American coin, it would be the Morgan.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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