Sal's Indian Head Cent Saturday ! Post yours please

I'm calling this one " Sal's Indian Head Cent Saturday" . Please post yours .
These are an 1892 and 1903 that I either "dug" one or Both of while Metal Detecting one day years ago . You guess .... ??

 

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I'll hold off till later today to post here... Sal has already seen what I'm bidding on at the moment lol...

 

Hey ! @RonSanderson . How do you do that ? Loop a video ? How ?

 

I like the clash:

 

What am i guessing, whether you dug one or both? Trick question. You already told me the kid down the block gave both of them to you
That was too easy!
Luv ya @SensibleSal66!
I'll post up some indigenous person's (pc) head cents when the lighting is better. Any key dates i should be looking for? I've got a ziplok baggie full of em.

 

1859, 1864 L on ribbon , 1877 ( doubt it) .

 

If i find a cool one, I'll send it to you for Christmas, if i get you in the Secret Santa

 

What are chance of that happening @CoinJockey73 ?? I'm not that lucky .

 

I found a better photo of the clash.Tricky to catch the light just right to show it best.

 

Thanks @Marshall . I did too .

 

This is a fun one. DDO and a reverse off center clash. Snow-1

 

Cleanest one i got.

Not the oldest though.

 

My most recent acquisition.

 

That deserves two Oos and an AH!

Knowing nothing about the Indian Cent Varieties, this appears to be 62/62. It that a thing?

 

These pictures are not videos, but animations in .GIF files. I copied the post below since it points at a couple of threads where I developed and described the process.

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.​

1. Rotate one image so it's straight.
2. Crop it so the coin is framed.
3. Replace the background with black.
4. Resize to a size you like. I use 800x800 pixels.
5. Do exactly the same for the other 8, since they all have the same position to the camera, same lights, and same exposure.
6. Do steps 1-5 for the reverse.
7. 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.
8. Repeat with the pairs of images 2-9.
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.​

 

@RonSanderson . . Okay, I'm not too computer savy , but I'll give a try sometime .