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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3306773, member: 19463&quot;]When I first bought my current camera in 2011, I made a series of images illustrating the point that you can always reduce the size of images for other uses.&nbsp; I did not bother to show that you can not go the other way.&nbsp; If you only save 300x300, you are not going to get prints or enlargements later.&nbsp; I rarely save the full size images on &#039;also ran&#039; coins anymore realizing that the reduced ones will make the prints I want.</p><p>The images below show a combined view of the two sides reduced to a smaller size but still too large for web use.&nbsp; Click on them to enlarge.&nbsp; Below the pair is a crop from the full size camera image that would be best used for prints 20x30 or larger.&nbsp;&nbsp; These are not macro shots of part of the coin but just small sections of the original image not downsized. I enjoy looking at the details.&nbsp; Maybe I should sop buying coins and looking for details to appreciate on the old ones. </p><p>Click on images to enlarge. </p><p><img src="http://www.pbase.com/dougsmit/image/140670999.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="http://www.pbase.com/dougsmit/image/140671012.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://www.pbase.com/dougsmit/image/140670998.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="http://www.pbase.com/dougsmit/image/140670996.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="http://www.pbase.com/dougsmit/image/140681423.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>We are often asked to render opinions on the authenticity of coins from photos.&nbsp; We regularly point out that we can not do that with certainty unless we are saying the coin is fake.&nbsp; I do not claim that my photos above will allow you to say that the coins are genuine but I do say there are things shown in the cropped sections that are not obvious in the reductions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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