...can't believe it's December already.

Finally, I'm all caught up on images of my coins. I had saved the larger proofs (Ike dollars, Commem dollars etc.) till last because I was getting a lot of camera glare. I finally figured out to stand my little easel more upright, and move it farther away from the camera. I put the camera in Super Macro mode, and then had room to adjust the glare out of the coin. Those mirror surface proofs catch every little bit of glare.

Another thing I noticed, and it seemed to be just on the Ikes and my Commemorative coins, that the camera will see every little scratch on the holder. It reminded me of a printing axiom I learned a long time ago "the graphic arts cameras see EVERYTHING", and so do digital cams. However, an interesting point about these scratches, I maybe had a dozen or so holders with a lot of visible and not so visible scratches, and all but one were PCGS. Hmmmmm, another selling point for NGC???

So now I'm caught up till I get some of my submissions back. I also still haven't tried any of my ABN plates yet. Talk about mirror surfaces!!!!!!!! I do love the ABN plates, unfortunately for me, the ones I really wanted went way higher than I could afford. I've decided to wait with my long-promised journal article on them till I can figure out how to get some good images. Anyone who has some ABN plates and have gotten some good images, I'd love to hear any suggestions.

I do have to scan some of my graded American currency so I can get the images into my registry sets on the currency side of this site. Plus one of my next tasks will be to start doing some research on my Mexican specimen notes.

I can't believe it's December already, where has this year gone??? I do hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season!

I'm attaching the image of the 1978 proof Ike, it had the fewest scratches, and it came out really good I thought.