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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;benhur767, post: 2943406, member: 36818&quot;]A plate is a page in a printed book for which separate plates are burned for printing photographic images on higher quality paper than the text section of the book. This is more typical of older books. Everything else is an illustration. Still interesting, but not a plate. For example, I have a coin illustrated in the Mazzini catalog, and it is a plate coin. I have another coin illustrated in RSC and it is an illustration. A coin illustrated on a web site is an illustration, not a plate.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Plate&quot; seems more prestigious than &quot;illustration&quot; perhaps because photographic reproduction was once more difficult and expensive than it is today; therefore fewer coins were deemed worthy of illustration in reference publications. If you have a plate coin from a book printed pre-1960s, I think it adds interest and value.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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