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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1163304, member: 19463&quot;]Is this a good time to ask why we photograph coins?&nbsp; One obvious reason is to help sell them but I rather rarely sell coins mostly because the coins I would let go are mostly what you don&#039;t want to buy.&nbsp; I have traded with a couple of you but selling has less appeal.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>My main use is to know what coins look like even when I have not seen the coin for several years due to them being in the bank box.&nbsp; This carries as a side effect being able to post photos of every coin I now own, 95% of all coins I ever owned and quite a few I never owned but shot for friends.&nbsp; This come in handy answering questions on this list since I have a lot of the common coins in my photo files.&nbsp; If you ask questions about rare and expensive coins, you are much less likely to hear from me.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Similarly, I have used photos to give a few programs to coin clubs and illustrate a few articles in magazines (starting with the &#039;Voice of the Turtle&#039; in 1966).</p><p><br /></p><p>As a decoration in my house I have exactly one coin photo and it has been there for eight years.&nbsp; I&#039;m too lazy to take it down and don&#039;t feel the need to add more.</p><p><br /></p><p>Why do you photograph coins?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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