CazLikesCoins

18 minutes ago, Charliemouse said:

@Silverlocks and @CazLikesCoins . Hate to be that guy, but you know there's a whole section for discussing coin photography, and this isn't it.  We're spamming lots of people's feeds here.

Agreed. Will bugger off. In my defence I did get drawn back in. But I'm off properly this time.

18 minutes ago, Silverlocks said:

Fat fingering the 'O' key, I think.

True! Too many biscuits 😂

20 minutes ago, bobski said:

What’s PF photography? Excuse my specialness

Dunno, brain stem issues, too much coffee, 5G signals interfering with my thoughts? Could be anything, but it's probably a typo

6 minutes ago, Silverlocks said:

My phone wasn't really satisfactory - its camera really was a bit c**p and the clip-on macro lens wouldn't let it focus more than a few cm away, which made things a bugger to light.  I took the plunge about a year or so ago and got a Sony A6400.  The camera cost about £630 - I did consider getting a secondhand A6300, which would have been about £350.  The macro lens cost about £180. 

When I was hunting about on t'interwebs the main claim to fame of the Sony was good support for tethering software.

I don't think a dedicated camera set up can be beat, no matter how far they advance miniature tech in phones ect. I've still got all my old kit, I used to do a lot pf photography and publish to stock sites. I'm still getting royalties for pix I took 20 years ago. Have you tried the photo stock website Alamy? Money for old rope, or pix rather. I sold a pic of a snail in a garden that ended up in U.S reference books, and a pic of my little cat - she ended up on a Calendar. I don't  know which month, but she looks like a  February lol. 🤣 

Anyway I've gone a bit de-rail-y so I'll bugger off lol.

1 minute ago, Silverlocks said:

I had a nice cup of coffee while I was taking my pix too.  I couldn't afford an iPhone so I bought a camera instead.

I've got an old Canon 5D Mk3. The pix from it are amazing. I'd never get rid of it. Although I'm a bit lazy and never get it out anymore. Convenience over quality every time here lol.

On 21/03/2024 at 19:38, Xander said:

Some more coins arrived today. The Mary Gillick Sovereign run. I need to invest in a decent camera.

Oh ... my ... gosh! That set is up there with .... 

Just now, Silverlocks said:

Translation:

250 is a particular grade or part number of translucent plastic lighting gel to make the light from the source flatter if you shine the light through the gel.  I've got some that diffuses the light less, which has a different part number.

4 stop filter is smoky grey coloured plastic that blocks 15/16 of the light going through.  I found that blocking all the light with a bit of card made the shadows too dark and you couldn't see the detail.  Some of the others I've done recently were with 1 or 2 stop gels, which block 1/2 and 3/4 of the light respectively, but I thought they weren't contrasty enough so I tried some 4 stop gel.

I took my pix with an iPhone under a light bulb while having a cup of tea 🤣

On 12/02/2024 at 12:02, ZEE123 said:

I have had some thoughts recently about selling off gold bullion pieces for another one. My aim is to keep my gold for as long as possible, so when I buy a bar or coin I will want to see myself keep it for a very long time. However, I will occasionally see pieces of gold that I wish to add to my stack, which might mean cashing in or selling off one of my coins to obtain it. For example, I had a 1 oz gold bar and sold it to a bullion dealer so I can buy a Queen's Beast coin for its CGT exempt status. Although it doesn't just have to be pieces that are the same size, it might be that I own a 1/4 oz coin and I see a 1 oz coin I like better, so I use the 1/4 oz coin and any money on top to obtain the 1 oz coin.

The only pitfall of doing this is that you will make a loss on your bullion if you selling it off 6 - 12 months down the line, should you wish to do this. This isn't something I want to do too often as it will mean losing money, which ultimately defeats the purpose of own gold in the first place. I have left a poll in the post as I'm curious to see what everyone else's thoughts are.

If you don't maintain the frothy happy cycle of selling your pms for exactly the same pms in a different form the whole gold and silver lovefest will collapse in on itself and create a nuclear sized crater with life changing ramifications for all of us whereby the universe becomes a hollowed out shell of its former silver /golden loveliness and why? Because someone resisted swapping out their John Wick silver for some Kookaburras that's why! And then where will we all be? We'll be looking to get obsessed over something else that's what. Don't peel that curtain back, just keep on swapping ... or this ...

On 24/01/2024 at 11:26, JJH said:

 

It was a very small auction from the Chinese Coin Society on Facebook. NO THEY  SAY,Because it show photo before bid and win,and pcgs box is real, they say it need to ask why pcgs let a fake coin be grade

A  ... Chinese auction ... on Facebook? For gold sovereigns? I can't see how it went so wrong.

On 24/01/2024 at 02:10, JJH said:

As the title says, I was shopping online. After I actually got the item, I took a look at it. Except for the face, I couldn’t see the details on the front. The part I suspected was on the back. First, the tail end of the helmet was pointing downwards. The second one is a short ponytail, the third one is not sure if the details of the horse mane are wear and tear or a weak blow, the fourth one is that the stick on the ground is very thin and smooth, and is relatively high off the ground, the fifth one has no BP... So is it really a fake? After all, it is 15 PCGS boxes from years ago, I’m not sure if even the boxes are fake, what do you think...

Queen looks like she's got a tooth abscess lol. Looks very fakeroo. 

10 hours ago, Petra said:

Nice, put price with postage is a killer!😮🤔

I usually wait until my order gives free postage. A one ounce Silver Britannia here, a Paddington Bear stamp there, and wallah, a box of goodies with p&p thrown in 🤩

4 hours ago, ArgentSmith said:

But you are able to share in the cards appreciation lets say next year the card's worth $50m 🤣 you just 10x you're monies 😁

Trusting someone like Logan Pall to honour your agreement who once faked his own death? It'd be 'Oh wow I've made nine grand profit on co ownership, oh wait the cardholder's died and no one knows where he left his, my card. 🤨

4 hours ago, ZRPMs said:

So Instead of me selling my cardboard. What I should do is offer shares. 🤔 Might have to do an end of January up date.

Yup. Offer shares to the TSF on provision they never see the cards, touch the cards, ask about the cards, see photos of the cards, even think about the cards ...

... I have the worlds first antigravity teleportation time machine if anyone wants shares in it. Above conditions apply lol.

3 hours ago, Petra said:

🤔😮oi! Not so tiny! If you want tiny you should see my 1/40ths😮🤔

Little things ... good packages and all of that 😀 

#-I-luv-1-gram-bars!

52 minutes ago, Paul said:

So if he was 100% truthful, he really just bought the card just to promote his new crypto liquid market joint ownership blockchain thingy.

Guess it is only a matter of time before someone starts this off with highest graded & rarest NGC/PCGS coins to buy part shares in them, given six-figure sales are regular occurrences now.

They have done it with art with Masterworks.

Especially given there's at least an established history of at least a few hundred years to back them up.

So say an original PF62 Una & Lion DCAM was put up for £250,000 and was sold off in 100x shares.

You could own 1% share of it for £2,500.

To think the guy behind the fabled Tyrant Collection is Dan O'Dowd, a tech/software billionaire. Perhaps something like this was his plan all along building the collection? 

I believe the purchaser Logan Paul is trying to sell shares in his Pokemon. Basically you can pay him XXX$$$£££sss to say you own it alongside LP while he rakes in the money and the buyers never get to see their part owned Pikachoo or whatever its called.  The rich get richer and poor get dafter lol.

47 minutes ago, Petra said:

Unfortunately lots of people are in the same situation 🤔

I have tried to stop buying more silver but keep getting tempted back, gold, need to stick to my main bits …. 1/10 Britannia, half and full sovereigns. Trouble is, even with gold it is easy to get tempted. Not really sure now why I bought any proof sovereigns, probably because they were a decent price🤔😮🙁

I love those tiny fractionals. I can take the edge of the fever and still have dinner. 🤣 

On 15/01/2024 at 13:21, ZRPMs said:

Update for middle of Jan. Sold some more cardboard in the shape of MTG booster boxes. Another 246.05 net to add to the kitty. Total now is 814.78. 

What a racket lol. Five million for a cardboard card stuck in plastic and tied to a necklace. 

... I'd so much rather ...

Genuine imo. And those wear and tear dings look very genuinely 'Oh noe I've bashed my gold coin and now its edge is dented' but only in the way an authentic gold coin dings so that's ok. And in a 100 years they'll be wondering if my coin is real lol, or forsooth or whatever they were lolling a hundred years ago.

Just now, Orpster said:

I wont bid live, I have buggered up too many times.
Once I won a batch of silver £2 coins, I had got distracted and thought I was bidding on the previous lot
 

I did a live bid a while ago after wine o'clock. I got the highest bid for about two hours and then spent every minute hoping someone else'd out bid me. They did so phew to that lol.

5 hours ago, Organics said:

Just wondering if anyone else has been on a similar buying journey or if anyone has any further advice? 

Nope. I knew from the start if I went into proofs and collectables I'd end up with a less gold - albeit in fancy boxes and pretty labels, and spend more money than if I just bought bog old gold bullion.

.... Then I gave in and ended up slavering at overpriced coins sealed in Tesco shoplifters boxes because having pure gold encased in recycled plastic made them - and me - feel even more special.

Luckily I haven't needed to sell my legs yet to buy the latest Charles effigy. Not sure the long term value is there compared to rolling around in an Asda trolley.

2 minutes ago, Fenlander1 said:

 

LoL! No one'd care these days. Everyone is getting out n' proud. And I wouldn't mind some gold sovs with frogs on them.

3 minutes ago, Fenlander1 said:

 

Looks more like Prince William to me lol.

15 minutes ago, James32 said:

What would you change? Longer hair..earrings? Bit of lippy to modernise him?

Tbh it's better than the rest available. 

I'd be quite happy if he took his skin suit off and went full on reptilian.

4 hours ago, Augustus1 said:

hi thanks , no i had not considered trading! only as i am now knocking 70 i think its time to" cash in", i mean its probably not the best time to sell? and yes it would have been to expensive when i bought it from the mint, and yes i think they have flooded the proof market too , also i don't think i have not held it long enough, i mean i have full sovereigns that i have had for years  that stand me at £150 so may be i move them instead for the gain. 

dean,m

Whatever way you choose I wish you all the best.