Let's See Your Toned English Milled Silver!

[ozjohn]

Trying to kill 2 birds with one stone. Firstly this is my attempt to photograph a coin rather than scan and secondly this coin seems to have developed reasonable toning.

Any comments would be useful especially regarding the photography. The coin was photographed using a tripod mounted  Panasonic DMX -TZ20 camera in aperture priority mode f3.5 and 1/60s and side illuminated using 2 LED light sources.

[Nordle11]

A little bit too much glare for me, it's saturating the details of the coin so it's hard to ascertain a grade.

I'd try bumping up to f11 and 1/125 or something near that to kill a little bit of the light, or move the LEDs around a bit and play with it to see how it comes out.

The colour of your light might help too, I find the white hues bring out silver better. Looks like you might already have them though..

Have you seen Brandon's post on photographing coins? That helped me a lot.

 

[azda]

Proof florin

[Paulus]

[UPINSMOKE]

What a wonderful coin the even toning shows this off nicely.

[Stuntman]

I love that W&M design, both obverse and reverse.  A halfcrown, I presume, or is it a crown?

[youliveyoulean]

[Paulus]

2 minutes ago, Stuntman said:

I love that W&M design, both obverse and reverse.  A halfcrown, I presume, or is it a crown?

Tis a halfcrown

[youliveyoulean]

[youliveyoulean]

[UPINSMOKE]

That 1888 Crown is what I am after, envious 

[mrbadexample]

1 hour ago, Stuntman said:

I love that W&M design, both obverse and reverse.  A halfcrown, I presume, or is it a crown?

I do too. First time I've seen it. 

[Stuntman]

Another fan of that 1888 crown reverse here!

[Nonmortuus]

A newbie, the pictures do not do the toning justice....

[Paulus]

Superb acquisition Nons

[Paulus]

[Sleepy]

Is that a matt proof Paulus?

[Paulus]

4 hours ago, Sleepy said:

Is that a matt proof Paulus?

It is

[jaggy]

Lovely coin Paul.

[Nonmortuus]

This thread seems to have gone very quiet so here are two new additions. The 1917 seems to be a weak Obverse strike and the 1887 has a few bag marks but the fields are superb in hand:

[Paulus]

Some major appeal on the reverses there especially!

Not sure if I have posted this one before on here, grading opinions? (Halfcrown)

 

Edited February 11, 2017 by Paulus

[Nonmortuus]

A recent addition and it will do as my type example for now.

[mrbadexample]

Double florins, Arabic and Roman 1s.

[Paulus]

Very nice MBE! I recently upgraded my Roman I to this one from Rob:

 

[mrbadexample]

If I only had half your photography skills Paul...