Coin Macro: One of my hobbies is looking for coins with errors on them; I'm not that good at it yet and haven't done it in a while, but I thought I might post a quarter with a small...

deerpark243 Loc: La Mirada, California, USA

One of my hobbies is looking for coins with errors on them; I'm not that good at it yet and haven't done it in a while, but I thought I might post a quarter with a small die chip. It's not worth any more than a quarter; die chips are common. It's on the upper left chimney.

Nikon D810
Nikon-Nikkor 105mm 2.8
1/250s f-9 ISO=64

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Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

deerpark243 wrote:

One of my hobbies is looking for coins with errors on them; I'm not that good at it yet and haven't done it in a while, but I thought I might post a quarter with a small die chip. It's not worth any more than a quarter; die chips are common. It's on the upper left chimney.

Nikon D810
Nikon-Nikkor 105mm 2.8
1/250s f-9 ISO=64

Quixdraw Loc: x

Good choice of equipment and execution. The coin appears to have been circulated and a little beaten up. With a current, common coin, I'd suggest getting as close to BU as possible, as it will more closely fit your purpose. Keep it up!

kpmac Loc: Ragley, La

Nice first post, Mike.

rcdovala

deerpark243 wrote:

One of my hobbies is looking for coins with errors on them; I'm not that good at it yet and haven't done it in a while, but I thought I might post a quarter with a small die chip. It's not worth any more than a quarter; die chips are common. It's on the upper left chimney.

Nikon D810
Nikon-Nikkor 105mm 2.8
1/250s f-9 ISO=64

Forgive my ignorance but what is a die chip?

deerpark243 Loc: La Mirada, California, USA

Thank you so much for your input; greatly appreciated.

deerpark243 Loc: La Mirada, California, USA

From my understanding, it's a small splattering of silver during the minting process.

JeffDavidson Loc: Originally Detroit Now Los Angeles

Nice detail. It's hard to light shiny objects and still get shadows to show detail and depth.

srg

deerpark243 wrote:

One of my hobbies is looking for coins with errors on them; I'm not that good at it yet and haven't done it in a while, but I thought I might post a quarter with a small die chip. It's not worth any more than a quarter; die chips are common. It's on the upper left chimney.

Nikon D810
Nikon-Nikkor 105mm 2.8
1/250s f-9 ISO=64

Very cool, I also did a coin macro recently. One of the birds I stole from an eagle photo here on UHH. A friend of mine does these coin cutouts as a profitable hobby.

deerpark243 Loc: La Mirada, California, USA

Wow, great job, I love cut-out coins.

deerpark243 Loc: La Mirada, California, USA

Quixdraw wrote:

Good choice of equipment and execution. The coin appears to have been circulated and a little beaten up. With a current, common coin, I'd suggest getting as close to BU as possible, as it will more closely fit your purpose. Keep it up!

deerpark243 Loc: La Mirada, California, USA

JeffDavidson wrote:

Nice detail. It's hard to light shiny objects and still get shadows to show detail and depth.

deerpark243 Loc: La Mirada, California, USA

rcdovala wrote:

Forgive my ignorance but what is a die chip?

From my understanding, it's a small splattering of silver during the minting process.

deerpark243 Loc: La Mirada, California, USA

Quixdraw wrote:

Good choice of equipment and execution. The coin appears to have been circulated and a little beaten up. With a current, common coin, I'd suggest getting as close to BU as possible, as it will more closely fit your purpose. Keep it up!

Thank you for the imput.