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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2372242, member: 1892&quot;]Scanning is fine, <i>within what it can do</i>. It <b>cannot</b> show luster or any information about the originality of the coin&#039;s surfaces, but it&#039;s pretty good at the simple technical details - wear, marks, etc. Scanners are actually better (in my opinion) at differentiating between the &quot;frost/luster breaks&quot; and actual contact marks which sometimes confound us with photographic imagery.</p><p><br /></p><p>If a phone is what you got, then it&#039;s what you got. Figure out via experimentation how close it can get to the coin and still achieve focus, although getting decent light onto the coin (something we will talk about later in the process) may force you to back off a little bit and compromise size for quality.</p><p><br /></p><p>Set the phone on a hard surface directly above the coin, as square to it as you can achieve, and remotely activate the shutter via the timer. My G3 snaps the shutter when I say &quot;Cheese!&quot; That&#039;s fun. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>What kind of phone? iPhones (5 and before, I don&#039;t know about 6&#039;s yet) and the Galaxy S4 - the ones I specifically know about - can shoot gradable-quality images of coins as good as any point-and-shoot. Just because you have only a phone doesn&#039;t mean you can&#039;t shoot good images, and if you do a set with the phone and a set with the scanner of each coin presented, those of us with experience evaluating them will be able to draw some pretty firm conclusions about the coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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