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And I was looking at photos on here this morning, which got me thinking...
gtstang
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Has anyone here had photo books made for your set (s), because there are some amazing coins posted around here.
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I have. I had professional photos taken of my 50 piece early commemorative collection before I sold it. Had a book made at Walgreens. It looks really nice.
Good question... I was thinking in a similar fashion when I saw @lkeigwin pictures of his bust halves.....And we see many beautiful coins on a daily basis.....One could start a 'virtual' collection just by copying and saving to a computer file.... hmmmmm I need to give that some consideration.... Cheers, RickO
The idea of a photo only virtual collection would definitetly be cheaper. Plus some would never tarnish (Ricko)
I have tried myself with the PCGS albums but there are some quirks to be worked out on PCGS's side
Successful transactions with : MICHAELDIXON, Manorcourtman, Bochiman, bolivarshagnasty, AUandAG, onlyroosies, chumley, Weiss, jdimmick, BAJJERFAN, gene1978, TJM965, Smittys, GRANDAM, JTHawaii, mainejoe, softparade, derryb, Ricko
Bad transactions with : nobody to date
And then I have tried myself
Successful transactions with : MICHAELDIXON, Manorcourtman, Bochiman, bolivarshagnasty, AUandAG, onlyroosies, chumley, Weiss, jdimmick, BAJJERFAN, gene1978, TJM965, Smittys, GRANDAM, JTHawaii, mainejoe, softparade, derryb, Ricko
Bad transactions with : nobody to date
@Jeffmtampa had a nice book made up of his set of Barber Half's.
I haven't done this yet, but would recommend it to anyone who thinks a photo book would be cool. Lots you could do with one of these, more than just laying it out like a coin album. You could really go nuts if you had the guidance and/or talent of someone skilled in graphic design.
I've mentioned before that it would be nice if PCGS had graphic design services available for people to do really cool things with their TrueViews, or some external partners that you could use. For a lot of people, the TrueView they get is the end product.
Another thing that would be within the realm of possibility for PCGS to do would be to offer photo book versions of digital albums. Augment the book by adding stock text about the set and individual coins (custom text about specific coins for an additional fee), and also add the owner comments about both the set and individual coins.
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
I really love that idea, Messydesk. PCGS might even set it up and use data directly from registry sets and offer it as a service.
Kind of what I was thinking. All the images, data, and text is there (and on CoinFacts) already. All you really need is someone to do layout of the book, which could be somewhat templatized.
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
I have been working off and on, on a "home made" book for my one or more coin set for each British monarch. I have been articles writing bullet point histories for each king or queen, printing the pages, mounting them in clear sleeves and putting the sleeves in a notebook.
That's a great idea! I have some coins waiting to go to our host for variety attribution with TrueViews. When I get it all done I might do that!
I've posted my box of 20 before. The coins themselves are in different holders, they are of vastly different sizes, and they're in one of three different vaults.
Having them on a website where I can pull them up on my phone while at the B&M or with interested people is pretty nice:
http://www.fourbore.com/montage20.jpg
--Severian the Lame
I made a photo grouping of my Peace dollar set before I sold it. A low-res image serves as a desktop background and I also had it printed on aluminum at 300 dpi at 30"x19". It fun to look and much safer to keep around the house.
I have a few other assorted photo collages that rotate through my desktop background. Here's one: