Man, I wish i could get my macro to turn out that nicely. I think i'm starting to see the advantage of a macro lens as opposed to my close up filters (which are used and dirty and impossible to focus)
sorry for taking forever to respond, but yes there is a shadow in front of the coin What happened was that I set it up in my makeshift studio (2 pieces of white paper ) and I had two lights set up on the left side but my living room light accidentally cast the shadow on the front.