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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mlov43, post: 8642908, member: 16729&quot;]What were you photographing them for?</p><p><br /></p><p>This brings up a good point about &quot;junk boxes&quot; or some other purchases of coins:</p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes collectors buy a coin, not to add to a collection or an inventory, or to resell at a higher price to someone else, but for <b>imaging purposes</b>.&nbsp; I&#039;ve purchased several coins from eBay or junk boxes solely for photography.&nbsp; I sometimes need images of various coins for articles and webpages that I&#039;ve written, and I did so for my book, too.</p><p><br /></p><p>For example, South Korea issued a series of Asian Games coins in 1986, five coins in total.&nbsp; The Asian Games are an &quot;Olympic-level&quot; event that helps sort of prepare athletes in the Asian region for an upcoming Olympics (as well as it just being a multinational venue for competitive events itself).&nbsp; The first Asian Games was held in India in 1951.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Well, I read that the first coin issued for this event was one that the host country of Thailand issued for the Asian Games in 1966.&nbsp;&nbsp; Therefore, when I wrote the chapter on the 1986 Seoul Asian Games for my book on Korean coins, I wanted an image of that Thai coin, which I also paired with an informative caption to give the reader a little bit more background on the Asian Games itself.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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