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Better pics please! Some of those look pretty nice

 

How were these dimes stored?

 

Here you go

have a real camera, not a cell phone, so that's a good as they are going to get

 

brought them to a local coin shop and he said it is real tonning. There were stored in a tube along with toned roosies

 

That's not better, and for the record all toning is real ....the differennce is natural or artificial, and again think before you post.... thought out , intelligence post with subject matter pertaining to what being posted..... not just blurbs of words that's a waste of time to read.

 

I do hope that these are naturally toned, but I can't tell anything from your pictures. If you have a real camera, then you should be able to post large pictures.

 

Macro - the little flower picture, is your friend in this case.

 

Natural toning

 

Sorry, I can't. Tried everthing

 

Sorry, but as I said...

 

One coin at a time, more light, steady the camera on something, move further back until the coin is in focus then crop before sharing, try different settings on the camera.... to name a few you could try.

And not sure what camera you have, but with an average digital you should be pushing down the button half-way to focus for a few seconds before pushing it all the way down to take the picture. Those pictures all look like there is no autofocus going on.

 

Getting them in focus is the very first thing you've got to fix. These images aren't motion-blurred (from trying to hold the camera steady), they're just plain out-of-focus.

Once you do that, you need to save them as larger files. The ones you've uploaded look like thumbnails.

Once you do that, it would be nice to crop the images (as Lunchbox John suggested), but uploading large images without cropping still might work.

As best I can tell from what you've shown, these are circulated. Circulated coins can tone colorfully like this, especially if they're from a smoky household, but it usually doesn't add to their value or collectibility -- unless you find the right collector.

 

scanned them on my printer:

 

Not a lot better, but it gives us something to work with. Here are images, for those who can't or won't open PDF files:



They're mostly less circulated than I thought, but it doesn't really change my opinion about the toning. (The scanner doesn't show the toning very well, but does show the coins' details a bit more.)

 

Sorry could not copy and paste pics.

 

Unfortunately they are all circulated, which is why they toned the way they did. Nice looking, but not worth a/much premium.

 

Cardboard Coin album or paper envelope toning. Neat looking but still worth basically melt