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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2603377, member: 10461&quot;]Since I seldom show my coins to anyone in person and maybe 98% of my numismatic interaction takes place online, good photographs of my coins are absolutely essential to me.&nbsp; In the last three years I&#039;ve become much pickier about that.&nbsp; (Besides, the coins stay in my safe deposit box, so most of the time I&#039;m looking at the pictures rather than the coins themselves.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I buy my ancients raw and make sure I have good images of them <i>before</i> they&#039;re slabbed.&nbsp; &quot;Unsightly white holders&quot;, indeed.&nbsp; Though I otherwise have little objection to NGC, I do hate those intrusive white prongs.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I cannot claim credit for the photos themselves, since I&#039;m still working up the learning curve on that.&nbsp; I stick to sellers who provide excellent photos.</p><p><br /></p><p>This Septimius Severus is the only ancient I purchased already in an NGC slab, but the seller fortuitously had provided a good enough set of preslab photos.&nbsp; (I have friends who help me with the Photoshop templates, since as of now I still lack the skills and software to do those myself just yet.&nbsp; I do have some rudimentary photo editing skill with simpler programs like MS Paint.)</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/RomanEmp-denarius-SeptimiusSeverus-018465-coin-800x500.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/RomanEmp-denarius-SeptimiusSeverus-%20018465-slab.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>On the topic of prongs, look how much more subtle and less intrusive PCGS&#039;s clear prongs are.</p><p><br /></p><p>This one was photographed through the plastic.&nbsp; The prongs are visible in the first image, but not distracting.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/USA-3cN-1888-057500-coin-800x500.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/USA-3cN-1888-prf-057500-slab.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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