$12. I have some blast-white gems but this gets high marks for a more subdued presentation with lots of personality. The hint of colors around the date adds to the richness. Thanks @C-B-D.
I seem to have a sudden affection for Mercury dimes. They don't have to be perfect, so I can be quite happy with these four for $35, courtesy of my LCS.
Picked these up yesterday.. 1878-S Morgan Dollar VAM-36b "Dragon Scales" with die break at E, $45.00. I've been looking for a "Dragon Scales" VAM for a while now. And this stunning 1960 Washington Quarter, $5.00.
The 3 cent piece was about $25. May have been cleaned, though as it is a bit light in color. The 1886 Nickel I think I paid about 20$, (give or take).
Thanksgiving El Cheapo buy. Seller’s pics. Original price was $40, I sent a $33 offer and the seller accepted. I compared it to a PCGS VF20 and it looks almost the same, the VF20 only slightly better. The intent was to flip it, but if I can sell any of my other cherrypicks I might just keep this.
Will you, or someone else, please explain how you make the beautiful moving pictures? Thank you. Have a wonderful holiday weekend! : )
Absolutely! Animation and Coin Photography should get you started. The post in Post your coin photography set-up shows my camera setup. The thread starts with some early attempts, and the process improves with suggestions from other members and improvements with the process. In short, I put my camera stand on a turntable and light the coin with two or three lights from above. I focus on the coin, tweak the position of the lights, and adjust the exposure to suit. Then I take a picture, rotate the camera+coin platform a bit, and repeat for 9 photos. The relationship between the camera and coin never changes - just the rotational position under the lights. I flip the coin over and take nine of the back. Then I do some pretty straightforward editing. Rotate one image so it's straight. Crop it so the coin is framed. Replace the background with black. Resize to a size you like. I use 800x800 pixels. Do exactly the same for the other 8, since they all have the same position to the camera, same lights, and same exposure. Do steps 1-5 for the reverse. Join image 1 of the obverse and image 1 of the reverse to make a 800x1600 image. The obverse and reverse can be side-by-side or above and below. You can find examples of both that I have posted. Repeat with the pairs of images 2-9. Feed the 9 images to a GIF animation tool. Each frame is shown for about .12 seconds. Show the frames in the order 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1, and set the animation to loop forever. This simulates moving the coin back and forth under a light, taking a little more than a second to rock it one way, and a second to rock it back. The suggested thread is only a couple of pages. Of course, if you have questions, feel free to ask.