Deceptive photo of 1919KN penny

[1949threepence]

Take a look at this 1919KN penny offered on e bay. It appears to be lustrous, yet is pretty obviously another worn coin.

How has the vendor been able to make the very lifelike lustrous appearance ? Photoshopping of some sort ?

Doesn't this amount to misrepresentation ?

No pic of the obverse, incidentally.

[davidrj]

Take a look at this 1919KN penny offered on e bay. It appears to be lustrous, yet is pretty obviously another worn coin.

How has the vendor been able to make the very lifelike lustrous appearance ? Photoshopping of some sort ?

Doesn't this amount to misrepresentation ?

No pic of the obverse, incidentally.

possibly something acid cleaned in the past now retoning

[1949threepence]

Take a look at this 1919KN penny offered on e bay. It appears to be lustrous, yet is pretty obviously another worn coin.

How has the vendor been able to make the very lifelike lustrous appearance ? Photoshopping of some sort ?

Doesn't this amount to misrepresentation ?

No pic of the obverse, incidentally.

possibly something acid cleaned in the past now retoning

Maybe, but I've never seen toning so closely approximating to lustre before.

[Peckris]

That's not Photoshop - if it was, you'd have something looking much better than that. It's been artificially lustred in the past and that's now wearing, as davidrj says.

[HistoricCoinage]

You often get that appearance with polished coins when using a scanner. If he was using a camera and daylight, you'd see something rather different.

[Peckris]

You often get that appearance with polished coins when using a scanner. If he was using a camera and daylight, you'd see something rather different.

I'm not so sure. The artificial lustre - if that's what it is - is pretty clear in certain places (it's not an overall effect like a scanner would give) - check out the exergue, the folds in the material, and between the legend, especially. There's a pinkness there, which in other places is much darker, nearer to bronze.