Post a Toned Coin

Doug, is this a proof or proof-like (if they didn't actually produce proofs)?

 

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Had this one for a few years.........

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Great Point. For toned coin enthusiasts with a copy stand etc ...who want to try and capture the colors. Try axial?

 

I posted this in the NEWPs thread but couldn't help posting it here also. Bought it for $15 and it has nice soft rainbow tones and is a super sharp strike, which I'm very happy of, even though it's a later date (1936). Even appears to be minted in Early Die State.

 

OK, I know I just posted this in the new acquisitions thread, but I'm super excited with this newp.

This one is in a PCGS MS66FB holder, and the obverse exhibits about every color of the rainbow. This is an ex-LeeG and Physicsfan dime. It will be in my type set for the foreseeable future.

 

I will post one of my favorite 1 marks and 1/2 marks.

 

Still remember seeing this one on eBay long, long ago. Although I can't recall the grade... 64RB? Maybe 65?

No matter the grade, I remembered it for a reason!

-Brian

PS: Nice imaging! Done yourself?

 

Just got these two back from PCGS today. Jim

 

Man EyeEatWheaties..I love your images but do they have to be 3000px and almost 2mb each? My phone hates you.

 

Hahahaha....anything over 800pixels on each side is overkill for web purposes. Though, just for the fun of it I once took a 100 Megapixel image of a Mexican Peso (10,000 pixels by 10,000 pixels)! It was cool to look at -- almost like navigating a Google map of the coin!

 

try going to CoinFacts and hitting "download full size image" for any image you want. it's ginormous! (11.4 MB)http://images.pcgs.com/CoinFacts/20241211_max.jpg

 

Very large images are useful if you are printing a poster the size of a 3 story building. Don't get me wrong. But, they are simply not useful for viewing online. Even if you want to print an 8" by 8" picture of your coin on photo paper at 300dpi, the image would only need to be 2400x2400 pixels.

I believe some people who pay for the TrueView images of their coins at PCGS collect the pictures more than they collect the coins (those CoinFacts pictures are "TrueView" examples for the most part). Maybe they print a coffee table book from all of the ginormous images?

 

usually when I see a TruView image of a cameo proof, the fields look white as TruView images are said to be taken at an angle. But on that proof Morgan the fields look black.

 

That's one of my forum pet peeves. There is not one valid reason not to optimize an image for the web. So unfortunately I have several people 'ignored' so their images won't show.

 

Edit to remove my poor choice of words.

 

There's some light orange toning on this silver proof which gives it the appearance that the olive branch, torch and oak branch are on fire. Two bucks well spent.

 

Some ugly toning on a 1977 -S proof Ike