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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ZeroDay, post: 1141367, member: 30109&quot;]I found a coffee can filled to the top with world coins, mostly from the 1940s to 1960s. It was in a trunk owned by my grandfather, which I inherited from my father.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll be picking out some pieces that I personally connect to, like those that I can tell were picked up by my grandfather when he was in the Philippines in WW2. The rest, I will be piecing out (I have already familiarized myself with the rules in case I make any selling posts here) in order to help fund my wisdom teeth removal - two years overdue, starting to be a problem, bla bla.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, I want to take good pictures of these. Tediously taking pictures of individual coins with a macro setting seems like a misplaced effort (and I&#039;ve already spent hours and hours washing and scrubbing these coins back to some level of shinyness with silverware polish- they still can&#039;t be fully salvaged to new, I&#039;m afraid, but at least I&#039;ve managed to clean a little more value into them) unless the coin is particularly valuable and needs grading, and I doubt many of mine are worth more than $1-2 at the most. Maybe there&#039;s a hidden valuable treasure in the can.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s an example of some shots I tried (those peruvians sure loved their Llamas and cornucopias, huh?), does anyone have a good method for taking the pictures I&#039;ll need to be taking?</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://i53.tinypic.com/21mgh2x.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://i53.tinypic.com/21mgh2x.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i53.tinypic.com/21mgh2x.jpg</a> - linked for huge, different picture than embedded</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i52.tinypic.com/jpj785.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>PS: I was kidding about cleaning them, that&#039;s the one thing I DO know about coins, no cleaning them. :too-funny:[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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