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Ooo, but I do like that space shuttle one.

Sweet!  Nice find!

All right!  Aside from flash flooding and way too much time spent on buses, I had a great time at the coin show today.  More pictures to come, but first up is a proof-of-concept shot of the 1972S silver PR69DCAM I got for the Ike collection.  I jury-rigged a glass holder with LEGO and boy am I glad I have a remote for my camera.  Getting the light lined up correct was not easy, nor was getting the focus just right.  But judging by at least some of the results, I think I'm on the right track:

Of course, I'd like to get those black proof fields, but in the absence of those, this will do nicely.  

Yeah, I found a couple of the original images and started a new album for them on my Flickr.  A fortunate thing, because one of them doesn't exist anymore; the building has been torn down.

Realizing that this topic has lain fallow for a VERY long time... is there the remotest chance anyone saved the images from this?  Imageshack went evil a few years ago and cut off all free users, so I no longer have access to my own pictures, and I find myself a) in need of them and b) disinterested in re-taking the pictures any time soon.

On 8/22/2018 at 5:44 AM, Circus said:

I have no idea since it has been almost as long for me too. and they jacked up the admission to take a loan level

Well, for the bells and whistles tickets.  $40 for the museum and village isn't grotesquely out of line, at least IMO.  You'll pay at least $45 to get into Cedar Point or King's Island, and that's before the $20 for parking.

17 hours ago, Circus said:

its called "the Ford" now They made the change so it would be more culturally relevant. To the youngens, with Imax ,Thomas the tank engine running on the railroad along with the other traveling museum shows they book. They had one hell of an auction a couple years ago. As the head CEO said we don't need one of every make of steam tractor just one examle. The gutted a whole bunch of Henry's collections he probably is still spinning at 90 miles an in his grave!

I hope they left the locomotive collection alone!

On 8/15/2018 at 5:41 AM, Circus said:

Before the name change

I didn't even know there was a name change.  Haven't been to the Ford Museum/Greenfield Village in close to 40 years.

Meanwhile, construction has begun on an off-axis lighting rig.  I will post photos when it's done because I want to see if anyone can sort out the method before I reveal how I'm doing it -- the only hint I will give is that I live in an apartment and therefore do not have anything in the way of a carpentry shop.

If it comes out as nice as I hope it does, I want to have a little brass plaque made for it in the style of Renaissance Humanist inventors: 'D Periparus facit MMXVIII' (Periparus would be the Latin version of my surname, in a similar way to how Carl von Linné is Carolus Linnaeus and Mikołaj Kopernik is Nicolaus Copernicus -- although mine is more of a direct translation than just a Latinization of the pronunciation).

The best I've got so far is an MS67 silver 1973-S and yeah, it's got detail and lustre all day long.  PR69DCAMs are pretty easy to find, but some of the business strikes get crazy real fast if you stray north of the MS65 line -- my silvers are 66 and 67, but my business strikes are all 65s.

Yeah, last year was really good for pawing through boxes -- mostly for medals.  I'm hoping for more of the same this year; I still haven't set myself any priorities.  If I come away with a new slabbed Ike, it'll be a good show.

Congrats to both of you!

It's probably going to be a low-key event for me anyway as I don't have a lot of new money set aside to spend on old money, but I'm sure I can stumble across something interesting. 

Cedar Point!  I haven't been there in 35 years... I'm WAY overdue.

Wow, no finds lately?

Well, I got a 1964 Roosie with that I'd call a strong VF/weak XF with tons of lustre on the reverse.  And a rather more pedestrian 1980 dime.

Oh, I have a tripod -- I have three, actually -- but none of them have the extender bit that will let me get the camera out a little ways so I can photograph straight down without having to deal with tripod legs.

As I mentioned last year, I picked up a Nikon D40 DSLR for what turned out to be a disappointing eclipse.  Even so, it's a great camera, and I have plenty of old Nikon glass I can still use with it, even if I have to focus manually.  And long time readers will have read my despairing comments over the quality of my coin photography.

What I have is the D40 with the stock 18-55 auto lens and remote IR trigger, plus manual 50mm f2 and 85-205mm f3.5 lenses, and a bellows attachment.  And I think I'm forgetting another lens or two.  Also a 1.25" T-mount, but I don't think my telescope is going to be relevant here.   Also, pretty much any relevant filter (various NDs, circular polarizing, that sort of thing).

What I don't have is a tripod that will let me easily get directly over a platform, so I'm thinking I can set up something at an angle and aim at that, as long as I match the angle of the camera to the angle of the platform.  I do have an enlarger, but no copier stand, and I don't know that I can mount the camera to it.  I'm confident that I can cobble together something to hold a pane of glass at a 45° angle with equal amounts of trial-and-error and hot glue.

So I come now to the collective wisdom of CoinPeople.  I know I must be forgetting something, because there's always something I forget, so what am I forgetting?

Welp, the Ohio State Coin Show is coming up again, Labor Day Weekend as always.  I have no real priorities this year -- probably going to look for more slabbed Ikes, and I'm toying with jumping on slabbed shield cents, since that's still a new series and can be caught up with in fairly short order.  And of course birth year thingies.

Anyone going to be in town for the show?

Hello and welcome!

The local annual coin show is always a lot of fun and well attended; I haven't been the local club meetings because they're really awkwardly situated for me to get to, though.

I thought they stopped releasing Presidential dollars into circulation after Hayes and reserved them for the collectors market.  I could be wrong...

I get a roll of dollars every other week for the bus, so I'm always getting a few to paw through.  I think the one I'd like to see turn up the most right now is the second Cleveland dollar.  I have the P&D of the first.

I've had unspeakable luck with the allegedly unreleased Prexies: Cleveland I P&D, Teddy Roosevelt D, Taft D, Wilson P, Hoover P, FDR P, Truman P and Ike P.  I'll be insanely lucky to get one of each from change, but that would be exceedingly cool.  

I might be willing to do another Ugly Coin Competition -- that was a lot of fun, really -- or take on a part of a PCI (not the whole thing).  That might be the way to do a PCI, get a committee to handle it so it's not one person getting clobbered with the whole thing.  Curating the entire history of world coinage is not something one person can do... at least not if that person is me.

2018 dime, but I think I've had it a while.  The neat find today was an Ike dollar -- the small Presidential Series Ike from 2015, not one of the serious dollars from the 70s.  I've been having weird luck with the recent Presidentials; I really thought those weren't being released except on the collectors market.

Also, I've started saving the ugliest (but still identifiable) coins I find in change.  I guess I need to get some more Whitman folders...

Those really need to happen again.