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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2521583, member: 19463&quot;]In 1997 I posted a page on imaging coins with a scanner:</p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/scan.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/scan.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/scan.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I felt that scanners used with care were good for coins. Not long after that I bought my first digital camera.&nbsp; My scanner did almost as good work.&nbsp; Then scanner manufacturers made a change in their product that ruined scanners IMHO for coins.&nbsp; Old scanners had depth of field allowing a coin to be in focus even if its relief was high and not all of the coin touched the glass.&nbsp; The new style did not.&nbsp; For a few years you could buy either style.&nbsp; The good ones were larger and thicker while the new style was thing and suited for inclusion in an all in one package with printer and fax.&nbsp; Cameras have gotten better, scanners, worse.&nbsp; The image below is from my old scanner c.1997 which still ran well when I no longer could get a driver for it and the then current Windows flavor.&nbsp; I still have a Canon scanner that works with mu Vista computer but Vista is an orphan now, too, so it won&#039;t be long until I am out of the business.&nbsp; Sad.</p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/caesaesc.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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