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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Terence Cheesman, post: 5391283, member: 86498&quot;]For some years I have bought coins from CNG however I usually ignore the color in the photo. I concentrate on the other factors strike centering as well as the significance of the coin to me. Recently I purchased this coin from CNG. Philip I Ae Sestertius Rome 245-247 AD Rv Anonna standing left RIC 168a 19.24 grms 28 mm[ATTACH=full]1231825[/ATTACH] . I saw this coin in New York and I was the underbidder. The surfaces are more brown and rich than what is suggested by this photograph. I did get the coin more or less at what I had bid. As usual I sent the coin to my friend and he took a pic. I like his photo better. I think i does capture the essence of the coin.[ATTACH=full]1231830[/ATTACH] </p><p>To illustrate my posts, I often use coin photos with a blue background and note that they were taken by ‘W Hansen’. One member wondered last month who he is. &#039;W Hansen&#039; is Wayne Hansen, a friend, who has used a crude, handheld setup to photograph both his and my coins over the past 15 years.&nbsp; We both write articles for our local, professionally produced, on-line coin magazine called The Planchet (freely available after the past year on the Edmonton Coin Club website).&nbsp; For his photos he uses natural light, preferably bright but filtered through solid light cloud.&nbsp; The light is restricted to more or less one direction with blinds.&nbsp; The coin sits on top of a stack of three pills stacked together for depth, which sits atop an old blue catalogue cover for the background.&nbsp; The camera is an old Nikon 4500 swivel body from 2004 so not high resolution.&nbsp; Beyond that, the images are adjusted and simply paired and joined with a snapshot process.&nbsp; He wrote an article on the technique in September 2013 - found in The Planchet archives at:&nbsp; <a href="https://edmontoncoinclub.com/the-planchet/the-planchet-archived/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://edmontoncoinclub.com/the-planchet/the-planchet-archived/" rel="nofollow">https://edmontoncoinclub.com/the-planchet/the-planchet-archived/</a> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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