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<p>[QUOTE="Publius2, post: 7958575, member: 105571"]Welcome to the wonderful world of coin collecting. The Winged Liberty (popularly known as the Mercury Dime, despite the fact that the god Mercury's wings were located on his ankle) is widely held to be one of our more beautiful designs.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also welcome to Coin Talk. You will find most folks welcoming and helpful. You can do your part by narrowing down the scope of your question so that those that want to help don't have to write a novel. Also, it helps with photos to take it straight on, not at an angle. Otherwise there is nothing wrong with your photo.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you are using your smartphone to take pictures, place your phone on a stack of sturdy books to hold it steady and at 90 degrees to the coin and put the phone control on a delayed shutter so it doesn't move by the action of your hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you are utterly new to US coin collecting, then immediately go to Amazon or the like and buy a version of the Red Book. Various versions of the Red Book can be had from as little as $13 (spiral bound small version) to $50 or less (Mega Red Book, 7th edition, the latest). It will answer many of your questions about the coins from colonial times to today.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Publius2, post: 7958575, member: 105571"]Welcome to the wonderful world of coin collecting. The Winged Liberty (popularly known as the Mercury Dime, despite the fact that the god Mercury's wings were located on his ankle) is widely held to be one of our more beautiful designs. Also welcome to Coin Talk. You will find most folks welcoming and helpful. You can do your part by narrowing down the scope of your question so that those that want to help don't have to write a novel. Also, it helps with photos to take it straight on, not at an angle. Otherwise there is nothing wrong with your photo. If you are using your smartphone to take pictures, place your phone on a stack of sturdy books to hold it steady and at 90 degrees to the coin and put the phone control on a delayed shutter so it doesn't move by the action of your hand. If you are utterly new to US coin collecting, then immediately go to Amazon or the like and buy a version of the Red Book. Various versions of the Red Book can be had from as little as $13 (spiral bound small version) to $50 or less (Mega Red Book, 7th edition, the latest). It will answer many of your questions about the coins from colonial times to today.[/QUOTE]
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