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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 2289051, member: 59677&quot;]Bad example. The Mona Lisa is in the public domain. So an exact images of public domain works can&#039;t be copyright isn&#039;t what is being discussed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Further, not all coins are in the public domain. The US government has various rights, including that some of the images are licensed by the US Mint from their creators:</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;from <a href="http://www.usmint.gov/consumer/?action=Jewelry" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.usmint.gov/consumer/?action=Jewelry" rel="nofollow">http://www.usmint.gov/consumer/?action=Jewelry</a></p><p><br /></p><p>But for same of argument, it&#039;s likely that the design of, say a Seated Liberty IS PD.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, while your goal may be a exact copy, there is no such thing. The amount and placement of light(s) to reveal the details of the coin, etc. are surely creative (how many times have you heard the photographer lament that the coin &quot;looks different in hand&quot;?)</p><p><br /></p><p>Plus, for fun, let&#039;s ask whether this is a &quot;Monkey selfie&quot;? The fight there is whether the choice made how to crop the PD image is sufficient artistically...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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