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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jral1, post: 1254160, member: 32252&quot;]I am trying to come up with a roller type coin holder that you can use to roll the coin along the scanner as it scans. doing it by hand is real fidgity. but if you can come up with some kind of roller so you can roll the coin along the scanner keeping the edge ontop of the scanner light so you end up with a long skinny picture of the edge/reeding of the coin. You can just hold the edge of the coin on the scanner(openlid) wait for it to scan over then pick the coin up move it ahead of the scanner light spin the coin alittle bit then place back down on th scanner wait for scanner light to scan and repeat untill you have all of the edge/reeding scanned. then you can crop and stitch the pictures together to make a nice flat image of the diameter of the edge!</p><p>[ATTACH]135250.vB[/ATTACH] A better shot of my first idea with an almost perfect circle of water around the quarter!</p><p><br /></p><p>Keep in mind I am not saying not to use your camera or what is better this is just a trick you can you use to get one side of you coin along with abit more then half the reeding/edge of a coin in one shot. It might be usefull if you want to catalog a bunch of coins you have collected and be able to determin face quality and edge/reeding in a single picture! Cameras do a great job but they also tend to be very large in mb size and you have to shrink them down or diminish quality to get lower mb sizes. A single high dpi scan of a coin at 1200 dpi-2400dpi only takes up about 250-500 KB not even close to a mb not to mention with the scan you dont lose zoom and pan quality like most all the camera shots I have seen here and most everywhere else except my Camera shots that I havent reduced quality and size. I have had many cameras but they always get destroyed in my cargo pockets due to my extreme career choices and my stuburness to bring it along with me. My scanner howerver stays at home. Entiendo! loco. Black and white text I think tbi&#039; can understand that! Merc[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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