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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;geekpryde, post: 25702057, member: 36248&quot;]It&#039;s all personal preference of course, a Chocolate vs. Vanilla type of situation.</p><p><br /></p><p>If I were to describe why I personally love the look of a &quot;CircCam&quot; its because I like to collect circulated grades.&nbsp; &nbsp; In the lower circulated grades, a coin mostly loses some of what makes a coin special.&nbsp; For instance, intricate details and bright shiny luster is gone, and in many cases it has lost any colorful toning it could have once had.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, what we have now is a coin lacking fine details, lacking luster, lacking toning, lacking high relief, likely has crud and dirt and scrapes and dings.&nbsp;&nbsp; Now, if the coin in monotone in color, lacks contrast between the devices and fields, well, a coin can just plain look &quot;flat&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now comes along a coin, that still has is lacking fine details, lacking luster, lacking high relief between the fields and devices, is dark in appearance, BUT has a high contrast look to it.&nbsp;&nbsp; The dark fields contrasting against the lighter, almost white, devices with a pleasant smoothness to the wear.&nbsp;&nbsp; Suddenly the devices stand out again, replacing &quot;details&quot; and luster with a clean delineation based on color, black and white.&nbsp; &nbsp; You can &quot;see&quot; the design again, though mostly worn away, through sort of an &quot;outline&quot; effect based on contrast, which highlights and make the devices stand out.&nbsp;&nbsp; The &quot;cameo&quot; effect is similar to how proof coins, held at the right angle, show the fields as inky black contrasting sharply with the frosty whiteish devices.</p><p><br /></p><p>For me, coins with this simulated cameo effect have something &quot;special&quot; about them that separates them from the pack of coins that otherwise are the same type, have the same numeric grade, etc.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The term, when applied to appropriate coins, is not mere marking fluff.&nbsp;&nbsp; It describes an actual appearance a coin possesses.</p><p><br /></p><p>Again, totally a Chocolate vs Vanilla thing, I totally get why some people would not care or even dislike &quot;CircCams&quot;.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; I do think that the effect/look is aptly named, as &quot;Circulated Cameo&quot; to me perfectly describes how I see these coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I imagine its why some people still like black-and-white photography in a world dominated by color.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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