Plates in Spink Guide?

[Coinery 1,157]

Here's a question for you? Why don't Spink's use images of the best available examples of type in their plates? They must surely have access to some pretty good imagery?

I know some of the coins have only a couple of examples known but, excusing these, what about the rest?

[azda 979]

Image rights perhaps and not all too grade coins/best avaliable are sold through Spink

[Nick 329]

Here's a question for you? Why don't Spink's use images of the best available examples of type in their plates? They must surely have access to some pretty good imagery?

I know some of the coins have only a couple of examples known but, excusing these, what about the rest?

I've often wondered that too. One picture that is especially bad is the 3914A threepence. Surely, they could easily find a better picture than that.

Having said that, they are life-size pictures so not much use anyway however good the condition.

[Coinery 1,157]

Having said that, they are life-size pictures so not much use anyway however good the condition.

It's just about aesthetics, and the art of the whole thing! Just seems a really lazy thing to do? In a copy I'm looking at, a very common elizabeth 3d and halfpenny are clipped and damaged, an unnecessary inclusion into what is after all an expensive purchase?

[Rob 3,152]

GC gave a lot of pictures because a lot of people wouldn't contribute. Apparently they were worried that somebody might know what coins they had!

[Coinery 1,157]

People strike all the time! I wonder how easy it would be to shake the echelons of power by boycotting a Spink sale, declaring, stop taking the...? Give us a decent website, put some decent images in your expensive book, stop eating peeled grapes, you're falling behind!

[Coinery 1,157]

GC gave a lot of pictures because a lot of people wouldn't contribute. Apparently they were worried that somebody might know what coins they had!

Yes, but Spink's have sold better coins than the 1578 3d I'm referring to! They don't need public contributions!

Irony is it doesn't even have to be a 1578, it could be something rarer (mint mark) that they may sold as a single lot previously?

[azda 979]

Here's a questiion, would a spink plate coin sell

For more in auction? If it did you'd probably find more contributers, also people may think spink are unapproachable and this puts them off

[Coinery 1,157]

I would also have thought, in view of the prestige of owning coins from old catalogues, that, having important coins from a private collection featured in the Spink cat., would've mostly been a desirable thing! Notwithstanding the fact they probably have most of the images they require on file? Maybe they need an decent IT guy who can dig them out of the bowels of their hardrive?

[Coinery 1,157]

There you go again, Dave, stop copying my posts!

[azda 979]

I was first as you can see Stewie

[Coinery 1,157]

I was first as you can see Stewie

Tch! I was writing before you, you just clicked first!

[azda 979]

Great minds think alike, in your case it was a lucky guess

Have you downloaded whatsapp yet?

[NRP 38]

All the bun head penny die pairing pictures were from me, I think it is important to provide as many pictures etc as possible if it is going to help others

[Coinery 1,157]

All the bun head penny die pairing pictures were from me, I think it is important to provide as many pictures etc as possible if it is going to help others

Totally agree! But I do think Spink could dig a little deeper on the more common issues in the hammered section at least!