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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3630745, member: 19463&quot;]If I were in charge of rolling out such a service, I would never use a 100% claim just to avoid the nasty letters when there was one that was wrong.&nbsp; That is why some of us refuse to say a coin is real or fake based on the photos.&nbsp; I have a 99.9% opinion on many but have nothing to gain answering requests from people out there determined to prove the earth is flat or I am a fool.&nbsp; People who live in a valley have good evidence that the earth is concave. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I am not into this current fad of researching provenances to include mostly sales listings.&nbsp; I find it interesting that my coin was once Dattari but I could care less that it was consigned to Pegasi and CNG.&nbsp; IF searches were free, I would do many to learn how they work and, possibly, help the programmers improve their product.&nbsp; I have curiosity, for example, how it will handle things like the two photos below.&nbsp; The coin is Dattari/Savio and Empire Coins 1987.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]973779[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Would it handle the differences in lighting and background?&nbsp; Would it detect that one is a cast made from the other? Could it tell the same coin before and after cleaning?&nbsp; Tooling?&nbsp; Repatination?&nbsp; If the sellers of this service were primarily&nbsp; interested in improving the product, they need to be working to improve it.&nbsp; Not including something like the NFA sales from the start seems questionable.&nbsp; Do they include that stack of poorly printed Alex Malloy catalogs I have from 30 to 60 years ago?&nbsp; He had many interesting coins but printed on newsprint.&nbsp; In those days few sales photographed every coin and lack of detail would make matches harder except for the high end coins that already are more likely to travell with papers.&nbsp;&nbsp; Can they match to Dattari Savio rubbings?&nbsp; To plaster casts?&nbsp; To published collections lost to WWII bombing.&nbsp; To the plates in Mouchmov showing some Reka Devnia coins (if so, they wold be stolen since they should still be in the museums). It is a great technology and will be a great resource for FurryFrogJR.&nbsp; I had a toy calculator once that did basic 3rd grade math.&nbsp; My grandson has one that preforms miracles.&nbsp; When image recognition is &#039;calculus&#039; level, will I be around to see it?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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