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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kurisu, post: 5348641, member: 117063&quot;]Searched some small dollar rolls about a week ago and amazingly had one roll with 15 proofs inside!</p><p>I&#039;m new here, but I know lots of techniques...one is try angling the coins but photographing them straight on if you can&#039;t really move your light sources, or just try angles.</p><p><br /></p><p>On highly mirrored coins too many light sources is usually a culprit.</p><p>This was a snapshot while I was documenting the find, and if I had turned off the warm overhead lamp to the left those mirrored surfaces would&#039;ve been much darker using mostly light from one direction (the outside sunlight straight ahead of me).</p><p><br /></p><p>Actually if you look at the few coins farthest away that are less affected by my indoor lamp you&#039;ll see that they basically look black and white!</p><p><br /></p><p>If you think about the lighting and seeing details a good place to start is to copy the way graders look at coins...one single directional light source from in front/overhead.</p><p>Hope that helps <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1226631[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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