[Steve Ellsworth]

You have to understand the humor involved.

I couldn't sell it to Steve because it's already spoken for.

All my works are either presold or go with in a couple of hours.

There are no lines on the face. What you are seeing is the reflections imposed by photographing a mirror surface coin through a scope camera.

Chrome / mirror silver doesn't have a "color" so it picks up the color of the scope lens which is black.

Since all my clients are coin collectors this rarely becomes an issue as they undestand the properties of the metal work and know my style but on occassion pics are shot in a tent to clarify or the coin can be dusted with baby powder to render the details without reflections.

Good teaching point. Glad you brought it up.

There will be more Marriane coins in the future and Steve will no doubt end up with one, just not this one.