Plate Coins..........
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Skymans post got me to thinking.
Back in the days before digital photography and the Internet, possessing a coin which was photographed for a coin publication (Auction Catalog or Numismatic Publication such as Penny Whimsey or even the older Redbooks) was a pretty big deal. Especially since coin photography was only for professional photographers and was quite expensive for consumers.
The term "plate", is an old photographic term which refers, literally, to glass plates which had light sensitive emulsions on them which captured the image from the camera. The quality of the emulsion on plates, far exceeded that of film so the process was kept intact until the mid-1970's, usually producing high quality photographs which were suitable for publication.
Aside from publications produced upto the 70's, is having a "plate" coin really that big of a deal? Is it really any different than having Todd or Jeremy photograph your coin or is it merely the fact that the coin is in a numismatic publication the important factor? (Excluding Coin World of course.
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At what level of publication would a Plate Coin be considered significant?
Back in the days before digital photography and the Internet, possessing a coin which was photographed for a coin publication (Auction Catalog or Numismatic Publication such as Penny Whimsey or even the older Redbooks) was a pretty big deal. Especially since coin photography was only for professional photographers and was quite expensive for consumers.
The term "plate", is an old photographic term which refers, literally, to glass plates which had light sensitive emulsions on them which captured the image from the camera. The quality of the emulsion on plates, far exceeded that of film so the process was kept intact until the mid-1970's, usually producing high quality photographs which were suitable for publication.
Aside from publications produced upto the 70's, is having a "plate" coin really that big of a deal? Is it really any different than having Todd or Jeremy photograph your coin or is it merely the fact that the coin is in a numismatic publication the important factor? (Excluding Coin World of course.
)At what level of publication would a Plate Coin be considered significant?
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1. Are the pieces chosen by a well known collector to represent that particular type or date/mint mark in his or her collection. For example, if Roper chose a colonial piece for his collection, that's significant because he built one of the finest known colonial type sets and each of his coins was a really nice example for the type. A coin plated in a catalog of the sale of a well known collection typically means that particular coin was further chosen by the catalogers as a spectacular piece within the collection.
2. Are pieces chosen as representative examples to illustrate a particular type or date/mint mark by authors of definitive numismatic reference books.
A plate coin usually means the coin met the standards and was "good enough" for the collector, author or cataloger.
One piece I had considered is/was used to illustrate REDBOOK for that type; but, no mention of that fact appeared in any auction writings for it. I would have though that significant.
OLD plate coins seems to hold significance, at least the mention of Ralau plate coin for one of the feuchtwanger store cards may have helped it reach 17.5K in bidding...
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as their photographic representative of the Memorial Cent series in Coinfacts, does that make it a Plate coin?
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Just curious.
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Sorry renomedphys, I didn't see the same question in your post as I was blinded by the cent....
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as their photographic representative of the Memorial Cent series in Coinfacts, does that make it a Plate coin? >>
I, somehow, don't think so.
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Web based plates can vanish in an instant... Book plates take a few hundred years to turn to dust!