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Shortly to be 534, Jack.<lol> Mailed yesterday.

Bruce

 

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Glad to be of some assistance, Circus.

 

A Biblical paperweight!

 

I told a guy recently that I sometimes feel I have too many coins, and he said that was an oxymoron. I know it is way north of 2,500, maybe 5,000? and there are many mistakes in my spread sheets and folders of coin pix. Maybe the answer is to sell or give away some of them? I really don't know.

 

Think I'm at the point where I'm looking for rare and expensive types now.

 

I know it is hard to pass up some deals when one collects general and assorted tokens. I have bought a number of collections over the years and a couple that were from local coin show vendors tht have multiple copies of the same ones. After they find out that there are all that many buyers for them. I also have run into the have a rare collection of this type token insert your choice of type that think because the are late 1900's they are worth big bucks, not!
The ones that make me chuckle are the collection of Bordello tokens that are fake or fantasy. My problem is time to sort the ones I've bought photo, page etc. Never been a fast typer .

 

No, he was wrong, at least on the moron part. What he meant was oxy..gen...oxygen, which we need to breathe....just as we need many coins to live!!!!

 

I've seen tokens sit on eBay for months because a seller has them listed for lots of money because they think rare equals expensive.

 

Fantastic piece.

 

My contribution to the cause. Fun stuff.

 

A couple of bullion pieces I picked up last weekend. Provident metals with a common reverse.






And I know this next one is stupid but it was so odd I had to get it

 

H8_modern - I really liked the first three bullion pieces. As for the following .........!!!

 

That one doesn't win here has to be the worst subject matter, for a silver bar


Second runer up

blank reverse

 

Local car wash two new tokens, different reverses same obverse

 

A token from a Monte Carlo casino, one of those that you don't think you would ever comes across.

 

Do some of you have suggestions as to how to photograph Coins, and to have such photos reproduced here ? Although I'm quite long in the tooth, as they say, I'm no whizz-kid in technological matters - far from it ! Explanations would have to be simple, for a simple person, and recommendations of any relevant literature would also be appreciated. But Patience and Tolerance required !!!

 

If you mean photographing with a cell phone I get the best results by not trying to get too close. I then enlarge the image by cropping it.

Hopefully some of the better photographers in this thread will give you some ideas.

 

Thanks, longnine009, that's a start. Let's see if there are any more replies, as they say, the total is often greater than the sum of the parts !

 

You would be best served by just searching the forum for tips. I take an old CD holder, put a roll of black construction paper around it to create shadow with my camera on a tripod. I set the 2 second delay and then take the picture. Flip the coin over and shoot the reverse. I crop and combine the photos in Paint. I basically followed Doug Smith's set-up from here:

www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/coinphoto2011ez.html

He's a regular poster in the ancients section and a dang fine photographer.

 

I found the below photo in my files and I'm not sure if I've posted it before:


Danang Air Base, Vietnam; brass, 24mm
Obv: DANANG A.B. NCO OPEM MESS / (diamond with angular S inside)
Rev: (jet) / (diamond with angular S inside)
Cunningham VN1250a Vol 2, pg 274

This token was used at Danang Air Base, Vietnam. Danang AB was used by the Air Force and Marines from 1962 to 1972. I am not sure what aircraft is featured on the reverse but I suspect it's an F-105 Thunderchief.



Some of the fighter aircraft that operated out of Danang were F-100s, F-105s, and F-4s. I don't think the jet on the reverse looks like an F-4 or an F-100 but a F-105

I'm not very proud of this image, but I wanted to get it posted and it's good enough.