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Hi. Sorry to be such a nag  but I have to rescan all my coins again and did my 1947ML last night. The scans look better and clearer to me, and the 7 sure looks pointy to me, not blunt as appeared in the old scans. Do you folks agree or not? I'm also very confused about which has more value, the blunt or the pointy. Can someone please confirm? I've found contradictory mentions online about this. I'd really appreciate knowing which is correct. Thank you!    |
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The upside down reverse shows a much clearer image of the 7!
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Hi Dottir. I am looking at the trends and they only show 3 varieties of 1947 cents. 1947, 1947 ml blunt and 1947 ml pointed. Of the 2 maple leaf versions the blunt one is the scarce variety. I had about 5 rolls of the 1947 ml and and only found about 3 or 4 blunts per roll. All 1947 are blunt without the maple leaf. Also when I was searching through my 1947 ml about 50% of the blunts were unmistakable and the rest of the blunts were a little more difficult to see due to dirt wear and scratches. I was not aware that there was a variety with a high and low maple leaf. For Canadian coins if the variety is not in the trends I don't worry about them. I don't want to loose any hair.
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I dont think your scans are bad at all. I have been having trouble getting scans to look even half that good. Maybe you can give me some tips.
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It is a sad day in Numismatics when a collector uses a newspaper to guage what is relavent........
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Thanks a lot for all that info re the 47's Soccerdad :)
My 3 in one scanner is an HP Deskjet F2100 All In One, for starters.
I'm scanning at 1200 resolution and click on preview before scanning, chose full image in preview, or else it scans as a tiny circle in a big page for me :( Fill page means the image is matched to page size and I get a bigger image for posting and looking at.
I also play around with the brightness and contrast as the differences in the darkness or brightness of the coins means settings need adjusting per coin almost (different copper colours and brighteneses, whether silver color coins, etc) I also shift the coin and scan from different angles and lighting directions for a "fuller" look when I really want better looks. It's hit and miss for me. I'm not experienced with scanners and settings etc ...
Someone gave me some scanning tricks info in another thread (sorry not sure where the thread is :( ) and said to scan at 600 for one thing, but when I do, the images turn out smudgey and cloudy, so I have to scan at 1200, even though that shows every little blemish and flaw you can't see with magnifying glasses.
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Coinsrfun, hi there :) I got my info from Coins and Canada site and some other coins sites online. I always goggle or read, or ask, to cross check info. Coins and Canada shows no values at all for any but the blunt ML one. I'm just confused is all come here to real collectors to enlighten me :) Looks like these 47's aren't worth megabucks anyways, but it's nice to log them correctly and know basic values for varieties/ Soccerdad, I didn't know about the high lows ML's either until this thread. |
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My post was not ment to be harsh. If we do not look closely at all of the coin....new discovery's will never happen. Like the 1908 5 cents which is not large or small, that is the only point I am trying to make.
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Thank you coinsrfun  I do understand your point though and it's a good one. I also feel a little guilty sometimes for posting and asking for so much info from folks and not being able to cotribute so much in the helping others with good info for them or contributing givens as yet (working on that though  ) Oh, you didn't sound harsh to me. Direct yes, harsh no ;) |
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When I try and send a scan at res 300 the website tells me the file is too large? I don't understand why.
I was not aware of the new 1947 variety. I have noticed that some cat will show some varieties and others wont. Charlton cat is the standard as as we know each year they focus on new varieties of certain denominations. For me I believe the ccn trends is a good guideline.
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I'm pretty unsavvy about most new techy things as to functions and how to
understand and use them. And I forget a lot of information. Maybe just too much
to try and remember with all the programs and gadgets
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Thanks coinsrfun. I will look int trying to download that program. I don't have pc I hope it works with a Mac.
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well people I'm staying with a blunt 7 . thank you
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I'd like to stay with Blunt if its the more valuable one! |
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