Post a Toned Coin

oops, you got me. I gotta leave that now. Matt

 

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I didn't want to break this out of the airtite, so forgive the pictures. This is the coin in my avatar.

 

I like the colors you show in the new photo better than in your avatar.

 

What a cool coin! That ring of green is the money color for toining. Why isn't this coin in a holder? I agreed with rlm that the new pics are better than the avitar, but both are teasing. Matt

 

Wow, that is a wonderful cent.. some great rim color there...

 

The avatar pic is from my early days of coin photography. I didn't like the original pictures so I pulled the coin out and took some new ones. I hate to crack the original seal on an airtite, so the pics are what they are now.

 

Thanks bro. Do you have to ask why it's not in a holder? LOL NGC didn't like the colors! The ONLY circular rainbow toned Lincolns I've seen in NGC slabs are the 1970S proofs. I've submitted a couple circular rainbow toners to NGC and both were rejected....I give, they can kiss my grits. I can enjoy the coins without slabs.

 

Here are are a couple German toned marks I received this week. I apologize for those who already saw them in my other post.

 

I posted this in another thread, but just thought I would add it to this "Post a Toned Coin" thread.

I just bought this last night off Heritage, it's my first Matte Proof Lincoln. I bought the coin based on the top photo, however I was very pleased to get some optimized color images from the previous owner when they recognized the coin after I posted it on the PCGS board. At first I thought it couldnt be the same coin, then I matched up the streaks on the bottom on the reverse (same signature, same coin).

Note that I have not seen this coin in hand yet, so I dont really know what it looks like! This is just based on second-hand photographs.

 

I bought 4 of those 1970-s target toned coins that were posted here or in another thread. I will be sending them into NGC. I also noticed that those (1970-s) are the only Lincoln target toned coins I could find in a slab when researching them.

 

Nice WL. I dont think the differences between those two images is exclusively lighting. Looks more like some 'juicing' going on. Much like a true-view.

Wanted to add. That is a wicked matte proof!

 

Thanks gbroke. The 2nd set of photos came from KeyLargoRareCoins, the owner of that company had this coin in their personal collection for 2 years, I think they sold it in 2009 or 2010. I havent seen the coin in hand. I hope to get it in a week or two (from Heritage) -- at that point I will ship it off to Phil at PCGS TrueView to photograph. I am VERY CURIOUS to see this coin live. When I get the coin in hand, I will try to photograph it and post it -- and will post the TrueView when I get that back. This is a relatively dark photo of the slab, with no attempt to pop the color.

 

In general, how do you feel about True-views? I think the pictures look amazing (my avatar is a true-view), however I really do feel they do not represent the coin colors properly. I don't think they look like they do in hand at all. I am not sure how they do the true-views, but I have a feeling they do a lot of post-production on the color levels. If I were to bid on a high dollar item, I would prefer to see images that weren't trueview. I know it's a touchy subject with a lot of people.

 

gbroke, I have gotten about 35 TrueViews in the past few months ... all appeared accurate to me (though admittedly the overall quality has been a bit inconsistent). One thing about Phil at TrueView, he ALWAYS maxes out the color on toned coins -- so he uses an optimized lighting angle that pops the color. The coin might look quite different from many other viewing angles.

The coin imaged below is a good example. Top photo is by Todd at BluCCPhotos, bottom photo by is Phil at PCGS TrueView. Both photos are completely accurate, it's just that Todd captured the way the coin looks from most viewing angles (sort of an average view of the coin) ... while Phil captured the coin at one specific lighting angle that max'd out the color. Some might look at Phil's TrueView photo and say "that photo was juiced!". However, that's wrong, the coin really does look like that from one particular lighting and viewing angle. If you are going to sell a toned coin, you should always provide multiple photos at different lighting angles so the buyer gets a good gauge of the range of looks.

My only complaints with PCGS TrueViews lately are: 1.) they have gotten a bit more inconsistent (some are fantastic and some not so great) and 2.) sometimes the photos are a bit washed out (too bright). In terms of the inconsistency, some of that might be that Phil is swamped and I think he only has about 5 to 10 seconds to photograph a coin -- another factor is Phil doesnt do ALL the TrueView photos anymore, a second photographer (not quite as talented) was added several months ago. I think with most TrueView photos, if you just back off the brightness a smidge, it improves the photos immensely.

 

How about some red wood for this thread?

 

Pretty slick looking 1933, my pictures do it no justice really.

 

That 1 mark sir, is gorgeous
It really just pops. Nice pickup

 

That is the kind of photography I would love to have for one or 2 of mine, especially my 38D buffalo..

That is a great looking IHC..

 

Now that's a beautiful coin , especially for a 58 , looks like a 64 easy .

 

I am not a big fan of Franklin halves, unless they have some color of course. I only have 2, here is one that came out of one of those framed type sets: