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Thousands of coin photos?

Aspie_RoccoAspie_Rocco Posts: 3,259 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Going through my phone just now, I saw I have over 11,000 photos. Looking at my iPhone album it seems like 70% or more of my photos are of coins!
By the thousands.
I save photos of varieties, toners, special coins I sell, and interesting rarities. I had not realized until now how overwhelmingly coin oriented my photos actually are.
Is your phone filled with coin pics too?



One day I will start deleting some of them, probably around the same time @ricko searches through his jars of spare change LOL :D

http://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistry/publishedset.aspx?s=142753

https://www.autismforums.com/media/albums/acrylic-colors-by-rocco.291/

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  • robecrobec Posts: 6,773 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Haha, mine looks a lot like that. It’s a disease.

    - Bob -

    MPL's - Lincolns of Colorimage
    Central Valley Roosevelts

  • DNADaveDNADave Posts: 7,280 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Can I join the support group

  • OAKSTAROAKSTAR Posts: 7,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yes, I'm an official member of that club. You can check out of this club at any time you like. But you can never leave! 🤣

    Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )

  • WaterSportWaterSport Posts: 6,838 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have a few - but my PC photo files - Thats another story.

    WS

    Proud recipient of the coveted PCGS Forum "You Suck" Award Thursday July 19, 2007 11:33 PM and December 30th, 2011 at 8:50 PM.
  • KurisuKurisu Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Considering that my degree is in photography, in the days of emulsion film...
    I've never counted my film photos but It's likely well over 100,000 negatives...maybe 1% coins.

    Never counted the photos I've taken with my phones over the years, but it's likely close to 100,000 images...maybe like 20% coins...until about 6 years ago. As of then, probably more like 70-80% coins.

    My current external 2 Terabyte drive is about 90% full. Nearly all cellphone photos lol.

    Coins are Neato!

    "If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone...somewhere...is making a penny." - Steven Wright

  • jacrispiesjacrispies Posts: 1,021 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Coins coins everywhere but not a drop to drink.

    Funny story, I was playing a phone game called Photo Roulette with the boys, when an app randomly chooses a photo from someone's camera roll and everyone has to guess who it belongs to. My photos were all coins! I could never win that game.

    "But seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you" Matthew 6:33. Young fellow suffering from Bust Half fever.
    BHNC #AN-10
    JRCS #1606

  • MWallaceMWallace Posts: 4,205 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @OAKSTAR said:
    Yes, I'm an official member of that club. You can check out of this club at any time you like. But you can never leave! 🤣

    Eagles. Hotel California.

    http://www.SmallDollars.com
  • OAKSTAROAKSTAR Posts: 7,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    👍🏻 👍🏻

    Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )

  • OAKSTAROAKSTAR Posts: 7,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MWallace said:

    @OAKSTAR said:
    Yes, I'm an official member of that club. You can check out of this club at any time you like. But you can never leave! 🤣

    Eagles. Hotel California.

    We are all just prisoners here (some more then others......Hello @ricko 😂 😉) of our own device!

    Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )

  • ChangeInHistoryChangeInHistory Posts: 3,060 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Same here on the laptop.

  • SapyxSapyx Posts: 2,247 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Aspie_Rocco said:
    Is your phone filled with coin pics too?

    No. My phone is used for, you know, making phone calls, and texting people. And Facebook. I almost never use it to take pictures of anything, even though it's got a perfectly usable camera on it.

    My digital camera, on the other hand... B)

    Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
    Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations"

    Apparently I have been awarded one DPOTD. B)
  • TrampTramp Posts: 704 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I can relate! 😂

    USAF (Ret.) 1985 - 2005. E-4B Aircraft Maintenance Crew Chief and Contracting Officer.
    My current Registry sets:
    ✓ Everyman Mint State Carson City Morgan Dollars (1878 – 1893)
    ✓ Everyman Mint State Lincoln Cents (1909 – 1958)
    ✓ Morgan Dollar GSA Hoard (1878 – 1891)

  • alaura22alaura22 Posts: 3,286 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 27, 2023 7:35PM

    Not 1 picture of a coin on my phone!

    Mike
    My Indians
    Danco Set

  • emeraldATVemeraldATV Posts: 4,711 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Has anyone ever use the slide show feature on the app ?
    Don't miss out on that part of viewing your files.
    I don't let my PC's photo files clog it's memory or storage.
    Call it house cleaning, with a flash drive, or aki, a stick.
    On the hand, I let my dishes pile up without a thought.

  • mark_dakmark_dak Posts: 1,130 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My name's Mark and I'm a coinaholic.

    Ditto here. Well over half are coin pictures... not great pictures but they are pictures.

    Mark

  • mark_dakmark_dak Posts: 1,130 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Mr_Spud said:
    Yep, but mine are organized into sub-folders in my camera roll on iPhone/iPad. These are all of my slabbed coin photos in a folder called “Coins”

    Organization is so over-rated. Have to search through the pictures every time like pawing thru the 90% junk silver box at my LCS for real fun.

    Mark

  • Mr_SpudMr_Spud Posts: 5,834 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 27, 2023 7:47PM

    yeah, I just looked at how many photos I have in the main unsorted “recent” folder and I have 23,351 in total. I’d say 60% or so are coins or coin related. Some sections, like the one below, appear to be more like 90% are coin related in one way or another. It would take me hours to find a picture I was looking for, so that’s why I ended up with sub folders.

    Mr_Spud

  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,486 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Aspie_Rocco said:
    Going through my phone just now, I saw I have over 11,000 photos. Looking at my iPhone album it seems like 70% or more of my photos are of coins!
    By the thousands.
    I save photos of varieties, toners, special coins I sell, and interesting rarities. I had not realized until now how overwhelmingly coin oriented my photos actually are.

    One day I will start deleting some of them, probably around the same time @ricko searches through his jars of spare change LOL :D

    Don't hold your breath........................ ;)

    Pete

    "I tell them there's no problems.....only solutions" - John Lennon
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Having very little photographic skills, I would say less than 2% of pictures on my phone or computer are of coins. The few I have are one's I have taken to display here on the forum.
    Cheers, RickO

  • FrankHFrankH Posts: 982 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Gee, and here I am just using individual folders for each coin with all pertinent info. :(

  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,064 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Phone, no. PC and NAS is another story.

    John
    Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,229 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have hundreds of thousands of coin photos on hard drives, but if you look at my phone... hope you like doggies :)

    JK Coin Photography - eBay Consignments | High Quality Photos | LOW Prices | 20% of Consignment Proceeds Go to Pancreatic Cancer Research
  • Aspie_RoccoAspie_Rocco Posts: 3,259 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @FrankH said:
    Gee, and here I am just using individual folders for each coin with all pertinent info. :(

    This sounds like an impressive level of organization. I worry you are missing out on the whole “wild goose chase to find an old photo” situation though. :D;)

    http://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistry/publishedset.aspx?s=142753

    https://www.autismforums.com/media/albums/acrylic-colors-by-rocco.291/

  • FrankHFrankH Posts: 982 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Aspie_Rocco said:

    @FrankH said:
    Gee, and here I am just using individual folders for each coin with all pertinent info. :(

    This sounds like an impressive level of organization. I worry you are missing out on the whole “wild goose chase to find an old photo” situation though. :D;)

    Yes, I do miss the fun of not finding images of coins I have.
    No "thrill of the hard drive hunt."
    :D

  • FrankHFrankH Posts: 982 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 28, 2023 1:44PM

    I also don't have buckets of coins. B)

    But I did make a collage. :D

  • Mr_SpudMr_Spud Posts: 5,834 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I still get the “thrill of the hunt” even using sub-folders because I just now counted and I have 90 sub-folder albums.

    Mr_Spud

  • 2dueces2dueces Posts: 6,559 ✭✭✭✭✭


    Do pictures of my dog count? I have more pictures of her than my wife.

    W.C.Fields
    "I spent 50% of my money on alcohol, women, and gambling. The other half I wasted.

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