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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2664357, member: 19463&quot;]I was tired of cleaning up the garage so I decided to see what I could do to improve some photos of old coins.&nbsp; I selected three that need work but failed to improve two of them so I&#039;m only batting .333 today.&nbsp; The others will get another try on another day.</p><p><br /></p><p>This Syracuse AR hexas is my lightest coin at 0.05g but it is so thin that it is larger in diameter than some of my coins that are a full 0.1g.&nbsp; I do not consider my scales accurate to .01 as advertised so all this is approximate anyway.&nbsp; The coin is not round but roughly 5x6mm across.&nbsp; In addition to being thin, the coin is exfoliated and has lost half of its surface silver.&nbsp; It is not plated but many coins have a compressed outer layer that is a bit different than the center of the coin.&nbsp; On a coin this small, this difference can be significant.&nbsp; The coin was struck very hard making quite a depression on the reverse.&nbsp; My previous photo attempts did not show the textural differences as clearly as I wanted so this was a matter of wiggling lights until I saw what I had in mind.&nbsp; This one shows the areas of exfoliation more clearly than previous attempts.&nbsp; Does it look more like the coin?&nbsp; Yes but only if you are looking at the coin under a microscope.&nbsp; In hand, you just don&#039;t see something this small as clearly as a huge enlargement.&nbsp; Perhaps this photo is best viewed on a computer monitor if you stand back a six or eight feet.&nbsp; I like the way the lighting suggests the third dimension of the rough surfaces and incuse.&nbsp; After I finished combining the images, I compared it to my old photos and discovered that I oriented the reverse the opposite of previous attempts.&nbsp; There is no way to tell which way should be up on a two dot reverse like this but this reminds me that I should have looked first.&nbsp; You can not rotate the image to correct this since the light direction would no longer match the obverse.&nbsp; Can&#039;t win them all!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]591738[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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