Photo's of New Cents 2009 and later

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Is anyone else having problems shooting the new 2009 and up Cents including shields? The photo's are so bright you have to almost follow a black back ground to keep the color close? I've tried to shoot yellow and Black - The black dissolves the rim and looks like a black abyss the coin is so bright. I had to slow my shutter down to 1/1600 just to get the almost red color on a solid black back ground. Anyone else trying lighting on these?

These are taken on a stand with a Nikon AF Micro 60MM lens - auto focus

I need to figure which one looks better for coins or to keep looking for something that looks more natural. These are very hard to photograph..