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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3582678, member: 19463&quot;]Perhaps we should note that these and most photos of coins in early publications do not show coins but plaster or sulphur casts of coins.&nbsp; Shooting actual coins was much later.&nbsp; Today there are still workers who prefer plaster casts to photos.</p><p><br /></p><p>If being casts is a deal breaker then my candidate for the &#039;first&#039; honor has a bigger problem.&nbsp; While much older (the card style dates the image to the 1850&#039;s by a French photographer) the coins in the form of a bracelet are a small part of the image.&nbsp; I believe they are Gallic antoniniani (Postumus?).&nbsp; I have posted this image several times asking for other old images and had no replies.&nbsp; I still have no idea when the first individual coin was photographed. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/sterphot.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/sterphot.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/sterphot.html</a></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/coinster.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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