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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jaelus, post: 3137942, member: 46237&quot;]A few pieces of advice:</p><p><br /></p><p>Nobody here is trying to give you bad advice on purpose here. People are taking time to give their best assessment from their expertise based on the photos provided. Also realize that this expertise is being provided for <i>free</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Second, those opinions are only going to be as good as what can be seen in your photos. You&#039;re trying to photograph <i>very fine detail</i> on a coin; to do that properly requires what you might consider to be <i>absurd amounts of light</i> to photograph properly. The tinier the detail you want to capture, the more light you need. You haven&#039;t got nearly enough light in your shots. The focus is just not sharp enough to be able to discern things like doubling on tiny devices properly enough to diagnose them.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You seem to be aware that your photos aren&#039;t good. That&#039;s a start. Realize though you&#039;re repeatedly providing bad photos and then complaining about the free analysis you get from those bad photos.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you want to continue looking for these types of varieties that&#039;s great, I encourage you to do so, but for getting the best opinions here <i>you really need to invest in a good camera and macro lens</i>. For getting the focus right and keeping the camera still (at that level of magnification any shake will cause blur) it would help to pick up a copy stand that has positional arms for lighting.&nbsp; I highly suggest picking up this book - it will tell you just about everything you need to know about how to properly photograph coins: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Numismatic-Photography-2nd-Mark-Goodman/dp/193399004X/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.amazon.com/Numismatic-Photography-2nd-Mark-Goodman/dp/193399004X/" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Numismatic-Photography-2nd-Mark-Goodman/dp/193399004X/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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