Some new photos.

Do as I say & not as I do.

Now is the time to label your coin photos uniformly and do it religiously. You will be very happy that you spent the time early-on addressing your file names. For example, perhaps all your coins of Italy should begin with the letters ITALY. Perhaps the coin's date & denomination should be included in the file name. When you have tens of thousands of photo files, I suspect you will thank yourself for including some logical format in all the file names.

If the photo is not of your personal coin, you might also want to indicate that fact in the file name.

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My image file names are selected to sort alphabetically in the order I want them. That starts with a two letter code followed by a 4 digit number (based on the theory that I will never have more than 9999 coins of one code group. I have Roman coins divided into four groups but could easily insert another group if I were to discover that my existing ones were filling up because I had been buying too many coins of one period. If I had it to do over, I would start with more finely divided letter codes. I then insert a BB for black background coins or WW for white (of which I have few) followed by my 4 digit accession number which is the order I bought the coins and enables me to find the 3x5 cards I created on coins since the 1980's and which number never changes as long as I own the coin. Therefore:

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Thank you, but I did not shoot them. The came from another website and I like the angled one and the 3d feel to these images.

Teddy