Gold coins

[scottishmoney]

Nice photoshopping job you did.

I don't have photoshop and have straight images only.

[scottishmoney]

Sorry, not photoshopped, as neither were the others.  Too cheap to buy photoshop, and the suggestion that I would try to make the coin prettier using it is ludicrous.

[ElleKitty]

Scottish, I don't think anyone has insinuated that you Photoshop your coins. However, I do use Photoshop to crop, doodle in the background, etc.  without ever touching the visible surface of the coin.

[KurtS]

Those are all nice photos, and I would expect gold coins to be a photographic challenge since reflections can easily overload a camera's dynamic range (ie blow out highlights).
The fact you did not use PS at all is impressive. 

I do use Photoshop...without ever touching the visible surface of the coin.

I used it too--but never to alter the surfaces; every little nick on the coin is left where it is. That said, it's a great tool to correct the level and color balance problems introduced by most digital cameras.

[Paint Your Wagon]

What I meant is that it is not evident to have a darker rim with less light on the coin and no shadow whatsoever on the white background
This suggests that either you have a very expensive lighted background pad on which you place the coins with bad toplighting generating the dark rim on the coin or to me more probable you cut the coin by a lasso method and put it on a white background the same whay as you cut the girls on your banknotes and put them on a different background
Whether it is photoshop or roxio or whatever program
On the last coin that Leopold I can see the right side of the coin and still no shadow

[Paint Your Wagon]

On this scan the two halves were joined with iphoto plus . Nothing was touched .
Notice my preference for lighting faces from above by the shadow below

[Paint Your Wagon]

This is Leopold I with the same scanner ( which is no longer functional since it only works on win98 )
Notice the difference in gold color and reflectivity
I did not even adjust Brightness and Contrast what I often do . But here I wanted for myself
to show the difference in color and reflectivity between the two types of coins

[KurtS]

There's an elegance in simplicity, where I prefer the Leopold I coin.
I'm just curious...do those Leopold II 20 Fr have raised lettering on the edge?

[Paint Your Wagon]

There's an elegance in simplicity, where I prefer the Leopold I coin.
I'm just curious...do those Leopold II 20 Fr have raised lettering on the edge?

Leopold I is incuse
Leopold II is raised DIEU*PROTEGE*LA*BELGIQUE ( God protects belgium )

Both exist in A and B position and Leopold II has 4 types

I am not into these varieties which go into Wiener with a point in the name and no point in the name and misspelled etc

A and B position are typically Belgian . If you hold the coin with the head upwards in front of your eyes you can either read DIEU*PROTEGE*LA*BELGIQUE or it is upside down ( and I allways forget which is A or B ) since apart from the Leopold I all are
bought at an exchange agent for meltvalue plus 2% and I go for the best grade since I know the coins have been cherrypicked
by a coindealer before the exchanger sells them

[scottishmoney]

What I meant is that it is not evident to have a darker rim with less light on the coin and no shadow whatsoever on the white background
This suggests that either you have a very expensive lighted background pad on which you place the coins with bad toplighting generating the dark rim on the coin or to me more probable you cut the coin by a lasso method and put it on a white background the same whay as you cut the girls on your banknotes and put them on a different background
Whether it is photoshop or roxio or whatever program
On the last coin that Leopold I can see the right side of the coin and still no shadow

Admittedly after our own discussion about the photoshop wonders on eBay, I took it bad when you said that.  I misunderstood what you meant by it.  I don't care for people messing with surface images on coins, and thought perhaps that was what being inferred by what was said.

[scottishmoney]

And another Dania coin joins the harem.

[scottishmoney]

And going south of the border:

[Paint Your Wagon]

I like that 20 kroner . Very nice design

[Paint Your Wagon]

This week after arduous battle I acquired a 350 year old uncirculated coin

a Louis d'or from Louis XiV 1651
As often Krause is incomplete
There is the boy Sunking with short curl
There is the boy Sunking with large curl ending to the right ( the one I got )
There is the somewhat older boy with large curl ending to the left ( Krause has only one longcurl)
Then the juvenile etc

[Paint Your Wagon]

The 1200 dpi original scan reduced to 600 and jpegged exagerates the slide which is hardly visible under a 10x LED loupe