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<p>[QUOTE="Carausius, post: 3583063, member: 76440"]In general, I'm a fan of photos of casts in the early sales. It eliminated the vicissitudes of patina and lighting on the image quality. If you look at some prewar sales that have photos of coins themselves, you'll perhaps appreciate these benefits more clearly </p><p><br /></p><p>The difficulty for me, as a provenance hound, is learning how to discount casting variables when determining a provenance match. Overall, the old catalogue cast should not show die details that are missing from the coin in hand, although the casts may often miss die details that are visible on the coin in hand.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Carausius, post: 3583063, member: 76440"]In general, I'm a fan of photos of casts in the early sales. It eliminated the vicissitudes of patina and lighting on the image quality. If you look at some prewar sales that have photos of coins themselves, you'll perhaps appreciate these benefits more clearly The difficulty for me, as a provenance hound, is learning how to discount casting variables when determining a provenance match. Overall, the old catalogue cast should not show die details that are missing from the coin in hand, although the casts may often miss die details that are visible on the coin in hand.[/QUOTE]
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