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<p>[QUOTE="TIF, post: 3224840, member: 56859"]The controversy involves the photoshopping of images in that book to create coins which were thought to exist but for which no examples were available (and perhaps never existed). More information can be found in this old Forum Ancient Coins thread:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=61331.0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=61331.0" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=61331.0</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Scroll down to Phil Davis's post. He recopied his writeup from an old Celator magazine.</p><p><br /></p><p>"I was dismayed however to discover that many of the photos in FFC have</p><p>been doctored, in PhotoShop or something like it, to illustrate</p><p>varieties of which the authors could not locate actual coins."</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm not concerned about the upcoming auction and those plate coins. It's not the <i>coins</i> which were doctored, it was creation from scratch of coins which don't exist.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TIF, post: 3224840, member: 56859"]The controversy involves the photoshopping of images in that book to create coins which were thought to exist but for which no examples were available (and perhaps never existed). More information can be found in this old Forum Ancient Coins thread: [url]http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=61331.0[/url] Scroll down to Phil Davis's post. He recopied his writeup from an old Celator magazine. "I was dismayed however to discover that many of the photos in FFC have been doctored, in PhotoShop or something like it, to illustrate varieties of which the authors could not locate actual coins." I'm not concerned about the upcoming auction and those plate coins. It's not the [I]coins[/I] which were doctored, it was creation from scratch of coins which don't exist.[/QUOTE]
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