I found a coffee can filled to the top with world coins, mostly from the 1940s to 1960s. It was in a trunk owned by my grandfather, which I inherited from my father. I'll be picking out some pieces that I personally connect to, like those that I can tell were picked up by my grandfather when he was in the Philippines in WW2. The rest, I will be piecing out (I have already familiarized myself with the rules in case I make any selling posts here) in order to help fund my wisdom teeth removal - two years overdue, starting to be a problem, bla bla. Anyway, I want to take good pictures of these. Tediously taking pictures of individual coins with a macro setting seems like a misplaced effort (and I've already spent hours and hours washing and scrubbing these coins back to some level of shinyness with silverware polish- they still can't be fully salvaged to new, I'm afraid, but at least I've managed to clean a little more value into them) unless the coin is particularly valuable and needs grading, and I doubt many of mine are worth more than $1-2 at the most. Maybe there's a hidden valuable treasure in the can. Here's an example of some shots I tried (those peruvians sure loved their Llamas and cornucopias, huh?), does anyone have a good method for taking the pictures I'll need to be taking? http://i53.tinypic.com/21mgh2x.jpg - linked for huge, different picture than embedded PS: I was kidding about cleaning them, that's the one thing I DO know about coins, no cleaning them. :too-funny:
Hello ZeroDay When I have a lot of coins to take a picture of I use my scanner. I have a good color photo HP. Then when I open the pictures in picture publisher are MS Photo I can edit one coin at a time to get the rotation and size the way I want. Hope this helps. Thanks Big Ed
I assembly-line them using my copy stand and light setup. Everything is c-clamped, so other than setting the delay everything goes through quite quickly. (Note that the camera shown in the photo below is not the one that I use - it is there only for illustration purposes. The actual camera that I use is the one used to take the photo )
Using a scanner to image a large number of coins is far and away the easiest. This supposes that: - the coins are raw (imaging through a 2x2, flip or slab causes problems) - the coins are relatively inexpensive I recommend, particularly for copper coins, that you use a non-reflective black/gray background rather than the white cover that normally is on scanners.
I agree. That works too, indeed, if they are modest in value. I was thinking perhaps the OP wanted to post them on place like ebay, and auction them individually...
My thinking too. Scan 20 coins and crop them out to individual images. Marry the two sides and you're ready to go.
Ach Der Lieber......you used what to clean those coins? And did you mention "scrub"? OK........just read the whole post. That was an April fools joke right Zero?
