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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 7685953, member: 19463"]You might consider it cheating but there is a way of being sure your coins are plate coins in a book. Write the book. I took the easier way out on this just by taking the photos for Victor Failmezger's book Late Roman Bronze Coins:</p><p><a href="https://mrbcoins.com/cgi-bin/lotinfo.pl?id=39778" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://mrbcoins.com/cgi-bin/lotinfo.pl?id=39778" rel="nofollow">https://mrbcoins.com/cgi-bin/lotinfo.pl?id=39778</a></p><p>Last I heard Marc Breitsprecher still had a few copies of the book and even fewer of the plate coins. A hundred of my coins were slipped into the plates when mine were better than Tory's of that type but there were 500-600 of his. Most were been sold after he dissolved his collection. CT's own Valentinian also provided some photos but I do not recall how many. If anyone here has any of the Failmezger plate coins I still have the JPG files if you would like them for your coins. That project was the most coins I have ever shot using a white background.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 7685953, member: 19463"]You might consider it cheating but there is a way of being sure your coins are plate coins in a book. Write the book. I took the easier way out on this just by taking the photos for Victor Failmezger's book Late Roman Bronze Coins: [URL]https://mrbcoins.com/cgi-bin/lotinfo.pl?id=39778[/URL] Last I heard Marc Breitsprecher still had a few copies of the book and even fewer of the plate coins. A hundred of my coins were slipped into the plates when mine were better than Tory's of that type but there were 500-600 of his. Most were been sold after he dissolved his collection. CT's own Valentinian also provided some photos but I do not recall how many. If anyone here has any of the Failmezger plate coins I still have the JPG files if you would like them for your coins. That project was the most coins I have ever shot using a white background.[/QUOTE]
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