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Highly reflective surfaces provide an interesting challenge. To create super-soft light for photographing proof coins, I cut a whole in a piece of typing paper, and inserted the lens. To create irregularities in the mirror-like reflections, black target patches can be strategically placed underneath the tent prior to illuminating the back side of the tent with a strobe.

Note the harsher reflections of coins not under the tent.

Not very elegant looking, but it's an effective low-cost solution method of providing extremely soft illumination of a macro area.