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Coin Web sites
One of the positive things that people do here and in other online
discussion groups is share information. Web sites are good for that too, better in some ways in that the information is more easily accessible later, more permanent, and typically better linked to pictures. Web publishing is self-publishing. It's like writing a magazine article or even a book and putting it out there yourself for anybody to read. You won't make any money for your efforts, but you won't have anybody editing or rejecting your work either. There are lots of good sites put up by coin collectors. One of my favorites is John Carney's RCC Users Coin Image Gallery: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/jcarne...ns/rccers.html It's a way for people to show off their favorite coins and for others to get ideas on new collecting areas they may not have previously considered. Tom Buggey's The Most Beautiful Coins of Antiquity does this with ancient coins: http://www.people.memphis.edu/~tjbuggey/beaut.html Stu Miller's The Stujoe Collection has lots of good information from NGC about various coin series, coin grading challenges, and other useful stuff: http://www.thestujoecollection.com There are lots of other good collector sites too. The better ones share knowledge about coins rather than just showing off your own coins, to help others appreciate their coins. Putting together a Web site can take time, both in the putting up and in the responding to queries you get from visitors. In this way, Web publishing is much more interactive than traditional publishing, particularly if you get a lot of hits. But if you're interested in the subject matter, this is positive, not negative. I did a little exercise with Google, which does a good job of returning the most relevant and useful sites when people are searching for information on the Web (the reason Google owns the search market right now). With the coin sites I've put together, Google returns one of my sites as its first selection with the following search phrases: coin appreciation coin toning coin pocket pieces coin fraud counterfeit coins Draped Bust coins Bust coins Bust dollars Saint Gaudens double eagles Several other of my sites show up second or third in a Google search (when using the search phrases "first coins," "coin authentication," and so on). It's interesting that with some search phrases that have commercial connections, such as "coin grading" and "coin holders," the relevant sites I've put together don't even wind up on the first page of Google's results. For instance, with "coin grading" it's the individual coin grading services that dominate, and with "coin holders" it's the coin holder companies. It's a commercial Web out there, more and more. But this doesn't of course prevent anybody from putting up a noncommercial site, simply to share information. If you haven't done this, it's not that difficult. All you need is an ISP that provides free Web space (alternately, you can use a free Web host, though typically there are more limitations with this). You can create the HTML that directs how Web browsers display your pages in Microsoft Word, using Netscape Composer, or with any of the more fully featured HTML editors such as Microsoft FrontPage and Macromedia Dreamweaver (some free Web hosts provide their own page creation tools). To create images of your coins, you can opt for anything from a $50 color scanner to a $1,000 (or higher) digital camera (lower priced, lower resolution cameras work fine for Web imaging as long as their macro capabilities let the lens get close enough to the coin). And you can tweak these images afterward, ideally to make them look on screen as they look in hand, with image editing programs that also range from the inexpensive (Jasc's Paint Shop Pro, others even less expensive) to the pricey (Adobe Photoshop). Fun stuff... -- Email me at (delete "remove this") Coin Collecting: Consumer Guide: http://rg.ancients.info/guide Glomming: Coin Connoisseurship: http://rg.ancients.info/glom Bogos: Counterfeit Coins: http://rg.ancients.info/bogos |
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