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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 3620890, member: 84744&quot;]I just tried out the new image search function at <a href="https://acsearch.info/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://acsearch.info/" rel="nofollow">acsearch</a>; it&#039;s available from their main search page.&nbsp; The point is to find previous auction records of your coin, and/or die matches.&nbsp; The results come as a list of coins, with each receiving a score out of 10, corresponding to the probability of a match.&nbsp; For me, the exact same coin got a score of 9, while a die match got a 4.6.&nbsp; I knew about the auction result already, but not the die match, which I was glad to find.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the coin, a very recent auction win:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]970615[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And here&#039;s the die match that acsearch found for me:</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #ff4d4d">edited - copyright</span></p><p><br /></p><p>Pretty cool, eh? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; It found the match even with the o/c reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>To use this new function, you just click on the image search button and upload an image, or paste in an image url.&nbsp; It gets processed automatically and the results are nearly instant.&nbsp; It&#039;s pretty slick!</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately it&#039;s not totally free, it costs 0.70 euros per <i>successful</i> search - if you don&#039;t get any results you pay nothing.&nbsp; (If you have a premium account already, you will have 20 free searches in your account.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The only drawback I see is that if you already know of some matches - for example from the auction where you originally bought the coin! - then you&#039;ll still have to pay for the search.&nbsp; But that&#039;s a relatively minor drawback.&nbsp; Kudos to acsearch for only charging when you get results, and for keeping the price low.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are the usage instructions:</p><blockquote><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">Since acsearch contains professional coin photographs for the most part, the best search results are obtained by using a professional coin image for your search query. Please note that:</font></p><p><font size="4">The image should contain both sides of the coin.</font></p><p><font size="4">The background of the image should be white (no patterns and no textures, e.g. by cropping in Photoshop, Gimp, etc.).</font></p><p><font size="4">The image should be cropped and not contain a frame.</font></p><p><font size="4">The shadows on the image should be as natural and unobstrusive as possible.</font></p><p><font size="4">Snapshots from a smartphone are often too dark and blurred and, therefore, not suitable for the image search engine. In general, the better the query image, the better the results.</font></p><p><br /></p></blockquote><p>I&#039;d be interested to see any hits that you get![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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