PHOTOGRAPHY AND TODAY'S COIN MARKET

A few years ago we shifted away from scanning images of coins and switched to exclusively using cameras. While this slowed down our imaging productivity, it improved the quality of our images dramatically. Because of this shift, it's difficult to produce the quantity of images that we'd like, but with our focus on showing you what we'd want to see when buying a coin, we definitely feel the change was worthwhile.

As a coin buyer during the pandemic, I find myself checking out photos of coins on MANY websites and I also get photographs of coins sent to me via text message, Facebook, email, and other venues. I've become more and more analytical in viewing these photos in past months and as a collector, I know the importance of an accurate photograph. While it will never be as good as holding the coin in-hand, we knew we had to make improvements to further the hobby and instill trust in our customers. The technologies are there to be had (that's exactly why we jumped on nuTilt), but I find myself frustrated that our industry is still lagging behind in this very important regard. I don't know how to encourage growth along these lines, but I think that it's an essential step in numismatics nonetheless.

While we all love coin shows, the better we get with this technology the faster growth will be in the hobby. Perhaps that's why modern coins have become all the rage recently. It could be due to their availability, but it must be noted that they are much easier to image as opposed to classic coins. As a historian, I value the classics and really want to encourage the hobby's overall interest in rare US coins. In that spirit, DLRC is doing everything we can to get accurate, high quality images in front of our collectors and the hobby can only benefit from others doing the same.

To read the complete article, see:
https://blog.davidlawrence.com/

To read the earlier E-Sylum articles, see:
COIN IMAGING FORMAT: NUTILT (https://www.coinbooks.org/v23/esylum_v23n34a06.html)
MORE ON THE NUTILT COIN IMAGING FORMAT (https://www.coinbooks.org/v23/esylum_v23n35a12.html)
CELLPHONE PHOTOS TOOK OVER THE COIN MARKET (https://www.coinbooks.org/v24/esylum_v24n03a11.html)

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