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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3770854, member: 19463&quot;]The NGC essays are illustrated with photos from CNG auctions.&nbsp; CNG has been wonderful for years by providing high quality coin photos for educational use by others but we can not expect them to take edge photos for all the coins they handle.&nbsp; CNG files are also weak in a few areas. They can provide rather few shots of the cheap and ugly coins that make up some of our collections and that show something quite educational.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll see what I can find in my collection but it would help if any of you have ideas of the sort of edge photos that we might want to include.&nbsp; Obviously, everyone will think of an edge seam from a cast fake but there are probably a hundred other things to be seen on edges that we might not think of immediately. I invite anyone with ideas to contact me by private conversation even if you do not shoot your own edge ideas.&nbsp; Some coins have a lot to show on their edges while others are just boring.&nbsp; Some are really hard to photograph in a way that will tell the tale. The owl below what shot to show the test cut but the edge accidentally shows a fold from the period when Athens hammered old coins flat and folded over the new blanks.&nbsp; There are many of these with much better examples of this than this poor coin.&nbsp; I&#039;d say I&#039;m working on it but truth is closer to I&#039;m thinking about working on it.&nbsp; That is a step in the right direction.</p><p><img src="https://pbase.com/dougsmit/image/112633508.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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