If you’re shooting for online auction, you might consider a consumer-grade zoom with a macro setting, as screen resolution and file size reduction will dumb down the image anyway.

As for lighting, go for a light tent. Google it and you’ll see a bajillion of them.

Hope this helps and good shooting.

I have never taken a photo of an object that small, but if you want a life size photo (or larger), the only choice you have is the MP-E 65 mm f 2.8.

I am guessing a softbox. I am sorry I have no experience with the lighting (I used available light for the photo of the candle-shape of a flower, and strobes for the food photos.)

The Canon 100 mm f 2.8 Macro lets you focus to 1:1, and so is the much more expensive 180 mm one. You’ll have plenty of room to work with the 180 mm, that’s for sure.

Hope this help a little.