New Member With Questions

Before I get started taking pictures of coins maybe someone has some suggestions. I have a simple Fuji FinePix 1300 digital camera that unless someone knows of a simpler quicker way, I have to take the picture, then download it to my Adobe program, and then attach it to a post for you people to view. This all take quite a bit of time. Are there any shortcuts anyone can offer? Also, any tips on how to get good photos with a camera like this?

Yes, I have a scanner. Suggestions?

I want to sell these coins but see from the sites rules that I have to be a member for 90 days and/or have a certain number of posts in order to post them in the for sale section.

I have scanned just a VERY SMALL SAMPLING of some of the silver coins I have. I have 48 POUNDS of silver coins which I would guess is a pretty sizable amount in just silver melt value.

The sampling has .50, 1.00, Peso, and a U.S. Columbian .50 as examples. I also have .25, .10 and .05 as well.

The samples I have taken pictures of have all of the coins that I have that were graded at least 20 years ago. I don't know who graded and valued them at that time but the envelopes are pictured above them. I also changed the contrast and brightness of the scans in my photo program as the scans cam out very light in their original composition. Just letting everyone know this as I don't what to misrepresent anything. None of these coings have been cleaned since I have owned them (12 years) and it does not appear that they were previously.

I don't see a way to post pictures here so maybe someone can help me out with it.

unfortunately nothing in life worth doing is fast or easy....if you just dump of any coins without really understanding what you have you could lose more money than you should.....the only way to make an educated decision is to gain knowledge...since you have such a large variety it is a daunting task...I don't know about the American system but here in Canada we can get books that we call buy guides...they give us an idea which coins are valuable and which aren't maybe they have the same idea "down south". 48 pounds of silver there has to be at least a few coins in there worth keeping...to have such a large stash to go through some people have all the luck

anyway




you can scan the coins

Take your time, go looking for a copy of the Red Book by Whitman Publishing. Get to know what you have. There are some modern coins that are worth a lot of money so don't think a coin has to be old to be worth keeping. Also, there are many web sites that have listings of coins so you can compare what you have with those. ebay for example. The PCGS web site has a massive listing of values but as overly done as the Red Book.

Darryl

Not sure what your looking for, but I will give it a try.

You mentioned that you might want to sell off some street coins.
To us I think this mean common silver coins, that mostly sell for
the value of the silver.

Common silver coins at the current silver price, may sell for 10 to 14 times face. This means that $100.00 face will bring you $1000.00 to $1400.00. The reason there is a difference in price will depend on where you sell them. You will get a different price depending on the size of the market your in, more competition the better price you will get. Also the price will vary from coin shops, pawn shops or online.

For us to really be able to help you, we will need more specific information. Also photos that show the details of the coin.
Most modern digital camera's can produce a good enough picture, you just have to practice. Good lighting seems to be the key to a good picture. I think by putting good lights from two different directions, then either use a tripod or keeping the camera as still as possible so the image is in good focus.

After getting the picture I use the program picasa3 (recommended to me from this site) to crop the picture so that just the coin is shown. This program will also let you re-size the picture to get the 90kb or less so that you can post on here. Will need pictures of obverse(front) and reverse (back).

I would suggest you take one series at a time. For example Morgan dollars or Mercury dimes. Tell how many you have and break them down by date and mint mark. Once we know what you have we can give more advice. For example with Mercury dimes tell us how many 1916's, 1916 D's and 1916 S's, 1917's, 1917 D's ....etc.

Once we know what you have we can suggests what to take pics of.

Here is link's to online price guide and photo grade site.

http://www.numismedia.com/fmv/fmv.shtml

http://www.pcgs.com/Photograde/