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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3940968, member: 19463&quot;]Buy better lights.&nbsp; Ancient coins without colored patinas do tend to be a bit dark by current standards but the light brown ones you might prefer are most likely fully cleaned and retoning.&nbsp; Remember that many ancient coins were found and first cleaned before the US issued its first coins 200+ years ago so what strikes you as beautiful, natural surfaces are cleaned and working on becoming naturally black again.&nbsp; You will do nothing to improve these coins in the long run.&nbsp; I suggest you sell them to someone who likes their current look and buy freshly cleaned ones that are currently more popular.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Your photos are quite decent.&nbsp; Usually here we see black circles and are told that the coin was too dark to make a decent image.&nbsp;&nbsp; Coins are what they are.&nbsp; It is up to the human to provide light in a quantity that allows the coins to be seen.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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