CoinTalk Members Discussed How to Photograph a Peace Dollar Bought for $73

This article is based only on a thread on the CoinTalk forum titled "That rediculously expensive Peace dollar, for $73." The source does not give a posting date. Everything below comes from members' posts, which are their own statements and opinions; the coin's date, condition and value have not been verified.

Trouble with color

Pickin and Grinin, who started the thread, posted photos of a Peace dollar. The poster wrote, "I have had the hardest time with white balance lately," and said of the coin, "It's much deeper than it looks."

Member physics-fan3.14 said the original photo "appears overlight, oversaturated, and lacks contrast." The member suggested different camera settings and moving the lights, and posted a version edited in GIMP, an image editing program.

Pickin and Grinin replied that the edit showed "a bit more luster" and that the depth was "fairly par." The poster also said they had stopped taking photos for about a year. Later, the poster shared new photos "with better actual color and a little more luster."

Peace dollars as hard subjects

Member robec wrote that of all the coins they had tried to photograph, Peace dollars were the toughest, and that they were "consistently tough."

Comments on the coin

Member Collecting Nut called it "a nice looking Peace Dollar" and "not a date that you see very often," adding, "I think you did good even at the price you paid." Other members also said the coin was nice. The coin's date and grade are not stated in the thread.

Source: CoinTalk, "That rediculously expensive Peace dollar, for $73."