Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/1908 Saint-Gaudens double eagle no motto obverse.jpg

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Original – Obverse of 1908 Saint-Gaudens double eagle without motto

Reason: Good Quality
Articles in which this image appears: Saint-Gaudens double eagle Liberty Head double eagle
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Currency
Creator: Coin: Augustus Saint-Gaudens (as modified by Charles Barber)
Image by Lost Dutchman Rare Coins
Uploaded By:Crisco 1492

Support as nominator – National Names 2000 (talk) 02:45, 5 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - A fine photo, well framed, well in focus, of a century-old goid coin that is a genuine piece of American coinage history. Photo currently used in 2 Wikipedia articles. Jus da fax 03:55, 5 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment This should have been promoted as a set, obverse + reverse for better EV. Brandmeister^talk 12:23, 5 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Reluctant Oppose - Half the object is missing... (I think a single image with the obverse and reverse is preferable) but more importantly there are distracting scratch marks on the transparent holder and the stars around the edge go in and out of focus.--Godot13 (talk) 13:22, 5 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment There are lots of minute rectangular artifacts surrounding the periphery of the coin, a left over of background cleaning. Perhaps they may be cleared? --Fauzan ^{✆ talk}_{✉ mail} 14:31, 5 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Fauzan, are you looking at full size or thumbnail? If thumbnail, that's unavoidable JPG artefacting, owing to how the Wikipedia algorithms downsample images when creating thumbnails. We should be judging images at full size, per the header at the top. (The cut out used the simple "circle crop" function of GIMP; there should be absolutely no leftovers).23:40, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

I was looking at full size. Though I am no expert, it was just an observation. It seems that the crop was done by repeatedly removing rectangles from the periphery. You can easily observe it by opening the image in paint and filling the background with black color. --Fauzan ^{✆ talk}_{✉ mail} 01:24, 6 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Those are definitely JPG artefacts. But why is your crop of such small resolution? If you made it from the original, that shouldn't be an issue. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:14, 6 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support -Jobas (talk) 01:14, 9 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Well, I'm not an expert on images, so I'll leave supporting and opposing to the people who are. I will say that I don't think this image quite reaches the same level as the Saint-Gaudens double eagle that is already an FP (File:Specimen1Obv.jpg). From what I know about photography, which is very little, I would say that this one is slightly out of focus at the top, and there also appears to be a haze about the coin which mutes the color.-RHM22 (talk) 16:21, 9 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 04:19, 15 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]