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Craigslist or some other local reputible source would be something that I would look into.

Or it would be a great opportunity for you to practice!

This caused me to do some idle thinking about volume imaging. I think, with my setup which is heavily-optimized towards this end, I could probably reach the quality level I'm accustomed to in about three minutes per coin. That's the total, from picking it up for the first time to saving a processed image that's ready to post online. Obviously, the shooting and postprocessing would be done as individual batches at differing times, and it's conceivable that I could do it a tad faster with Gimp scripting - although I doubt I could script a crop, everything else lends itself to a script.

So we'll call it two minutes per coin, 30 per hour flat-out. I would not apply skills I've taken years to learn for free; even with that kind of efficiency I'd still be wanting about $1 per coin.

At that rate, the cost of shooting 500 coins or a little more - if you're careful about your expenditures - will put you into imaging equipment every bit the equal of mine, and I will teach you how to use it all here in the forum, for free.

Just sayin'.

Please do, we'll be happy to help. List what you're using for equipment, and offer a couple of examples if you have images ready for critique.