What is your "Coolest Coin"

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I guess my coolest coin is my 1886 morgan that,s in the main gallery .
Super nice cameo ,one day I,ll send it off to get graded and find out if it,s proof or DMPL . The file is to large to upload image here so sad
Hey dummy me figured out how to reduce the size :headbang:

 

Mikjo0, My 1/2 Tanka was from the Bhopal area in India. You remember the place where several thousand people were gassed to death by Union Carbide.

Bone

 

Speedy, that is an awesome coin! I'm green with envy. It's clear that the d is doubled without the closeup, but I can see in the closeup that it is tripled as you said! Thanks for showing me that. :bow:

 

I am drooling over that coin!

 

I love this proof, John the Baptist's head. How cool is that?



One of my favorite Morgans....

 

that is a great photo. How did you take it? BTW - It didn't answer my question about Cameo, but thats OK.

Ruben

 

Its a URS8 and I see on a post that GDJMPS posted that the URS8 means about 65-125 of them known....

Did you read my post??...its not CAMEO..that is just a word....its more call IMO frosting...or PL fields...

Speedy

 

The term "cameo," like Speedy said, is probably the wrong one to use with Morgans like this. Early strikes from fresh dies produce a really nice frosted effect on the raised sections, while the fields have a deep mirror. It resembles what we accurately call "cameo" in a proof, while not being exactly the same. My coin quacked, so I called it a duck.

For the actual pictures, I use my Minolta Z2, which happens to have a really nice macro capability. I use the SuperMacro function, aimed downwards on a small tripod with the lens about 4 inches from the coin, which is mounted on a black background and tilted to be parallel with the lens. At that distance a Morgan fills the frame. I can go closer yet for the smaller coins.

For lighting I use a small table lamp with a GE Reveal bulb aimed indirectly. I get equal results with aperture at F8.0 and exposure around 1/4-1/2 second, or F3.2 and 1/200 or so. I use the Tungsten white balance preset and play with that in Photoshop if necessary - I've found with my camera that setting a custom white balance doesn't do any better. I need a second light source to completely eliminate the shadows - right now I'm not getting nearly the picture quality that can be had.

At these settings, using the maximum pic size setting, the final cropped coin pic is about 1300 pixels square. The big image I posted above is 1327x1296 actual. It's darn near enough to identify the smaller VAM's.

 

I bet that is definitely worth holding onto, seeing that every year the demand for errors grows!

 

me too zane that,s why I keep in a flip no drool marks :kewl:

 

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