Large cents photo needed! CAN YOU HELP?
Dentuck
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Good afternoon, Coin Gang.
Here at Whitman Publishing headquarters, on the 27th floor of imposing Whitman Tower in Atlanta, where the vending machines run on Buffalo nickels and Barber dimes, we're working on an updated 2nd edition of Q. David Bowers's Lost and Found Coin Hoards and Treasures: Illustrated Stories of the Greatest American Troves and Their Discoveries.
I would love to replace the image currently on page 106, which is the opening-page illustration for chapter 5 ("Hoards of Old Copper Cents").
What we have in the 1st edition is an extreme close-up, enlarged to full-page size, of a Draped Bust large cent.
For the 2nd edition I'd like something a bit warmer and less "in-your-face."
I'm envisioning a heaping pile of large cents photographed from above . . . or perhaps a selection of raw large cents artfully scattered across a mahogany desktop with a magnifying glass at hand (snifter of scotch optional) . . . or a canvas sack spilling over with hundreds of low-grade common-date coins. (The focus of this chapter is more on hoards or accumulations, rather than carefully curated collections or registry-set slabs.)
The image file would have to be fairly high-resolution, large enough to fill an entire 8.5 x 11 - inch page.
Can anyone here pull something like this together?
Your "payment," as such, would be a credit in the book's acknowledgments section, which will earn you eternal fame and admiration in the halls of numismatic camaraderie.
(Note that I've written this post in a Longacre-esque style, in order to lure him out of retirement in his remote brought-over-stone-by-stone-from-England stately manor in an undisclosed East Coast location.)
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Uhmmmm....Longacre's manor house stones were brought from Burgundy in individual boats - each carrying one stone - so as to minimize damage of the ancient pieces rubbing against one another.
I'll look in the private reserve vault built beneath the river for a keg or two of old coppers or maybe silver. There might be suitable photos from the Baltimore gold hoard - Len Augsberger might know.....or a Kagin photo of the Saddle Ridge hoard in situ...?
@StrikeOutXXX submitted this picture in https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1017162/87redcivics-2019-pittsburgh-ana-show-report
Maybe he could help you out?
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I'm no longer speaking to Len Augsburger (or to Joel Orosz or Pete Smith) since their book 1972: Birth of a Nation's Coinage beat Whitman for a Numismatic Literary Guild "Book of the Year" award.
This is not to be confused with their more famous text, 1792: Birth of a Nation's Coinage, which involves the Philadelphia Mint. The 1972 book covers the coinage of the Republic of Sri Lanka.
Yes, that was from Steve Ellsworth, he could likely stage whatever you needed.
Thank you! Good idea --- I'll check with Col. Steve.
Imagine hauling that chest of large cents around to coin shows.
Yes I think Steve should have some old photos of the “Butternut Hoard”, that he acquired ~25 years ago. Coinworld did a nice story on it.
In fact the Butternut Hoard is one of the accumulations described in that chapter. You'd think I would have put 2 + 2 together and immediately got the Colonel on the phone. I'm not the brightest knife in the toolshed but I do my best! Thanks for the tip.
I love that first edition of American Hoards, and have read parts of it over and over. Excited to hear a second edition is forthcoming!