
Originally Posted by
Mike Buckley
The look of this side appears more natural to my eye, though of course I have never seen the coin itself. Perhaps your lighting and/or post-processing was different with the treatment of the two sides.
I like this tabletop better than the other one but it's still not ideal in my mind; I would go for a relatively plain tabletop that has variation in tonal value created by the lighting. Having said that, I've never looked up the typical tabletop of high-end coin photography.