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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vercingetorix, post: 348376, member: 3374&quot;]heck, your coin also reminds me of venetian gold from the middle ages.</p><p><br /></p><p>weight is useful, if you have a decent scale (grams, tenths of grams even better).&nbsp; from a picture like the one you&#039;ve given us, though, it&#039;s just a recognition factor -- once you&#039;ve seen enough of the real deal, and enough fakes, you start to pick up on things even if you can&#039;t put your finger on it.&nbsp; in this instance, your coin has a sort of matte effect, which doesn&#039;t strike me as right.&nbsp; also, the flan is nice and regular, and the coin is nicely detailed -- a bit too nice for something picked up at some souk in iraq.</p><p><br /></p><p>but i&#039;m prepared to retract everything, if you can provide a better pic.</p><p><br /></p><p>as for images, try to take a nice pic using the macro setting on your digital camera, on a nice, light backgroun (nix the quarter, since we&#039;ve got relative size down) and then resize using this tool:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.shrinkpictures.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.shrinkpictures.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.shrinkpictures.com/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>it may not be the best, but it&#039;s worked for me before.</p><p><br /></p><p>v.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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