WHat A Difference Lighting Can Make

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What a difference lighting can make when buying or selling a coin. Good natural pictures can make all the difference on your choice of a coin. Below images of a recently bought 1880 Farthing for my collection.

1st Images taken by Seller:

2nd Images taken by me with daylight lamps.

3rd Images taken by me again using daylight lamps with reduced brightness at slightly different angles.

 

[Paulus 1,980]

I couldn't agree more!

[1949threepence 3,368]

Mick, which is the closest in terms of how the coin looks to the naked eye?

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1 hour ago, 1949threepence said:

Mick, which is the closest in terms of how the coin looks to the naked eye?

Mike to be honest and on a closer look I think that my 2nd photo's are the closest to what it looks like in hand. The trouble with buying online you only have the sellers pictures to go by. Although some times I have bought a coin going by the sellers pictures, and have been pleasantly surprised to find that the coin is better in hand that the photos portray . So some pictures don't alway portray a true likeness. 

[1949threepence 3,368]

I don't know whether lighting is the cause of the colour misrepresentation for the F8 I won at the September 2019 LCA. This is the photo they uploaded to their website:-

 

[1949threepence 3,368]

...and this is the pic, I took when I received it - the colour shown being the actual one visible to the naked eye.

Quite what cause that degree of variation I don't know. Didn't make any difference as I was perfectly happy with the colour they had, and the one as it turned out to be. But it does appear that  the type of photography can hugely influence a coin's appearance on a photograph.

 

[Sword 1,530]

This is one of the first coins I have ever brought:

Original auction photos:

 

CGS Photos:

 

[Sword 1,530]

Photos I took after the coin was slabbed (the white marks on the observe are just dust) and most closely match the actual appearance.

[blakeyboy 1,818]

By a strange coincidence, I put up a post in 'Free for All' about this- a 1953 penny, the last picture looking like a proof, all the others looking a bit ragged.

Seller insists it's the same coin.  So tricky, hence the common use of the 'better in the hand' phrase....

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/283678826780?ul_noapp=true