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Coin Photography: A Photo is Worth 1,000 Words (Except When It’s Not Enough)

A revisited Guest Blog on Coin Photography from Jenna Van Valen, photographer at DWN. We’ve all heard the numismatic mantra, “Buy the coin, not the holder.” But what about those times we can’t view the coin in person? Surely we can’t all attend every convention, every auction, visit every dealer and view their inventory. We […]

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Douglas Winter Numismatics Presents: DWN Concierge Sales

  By Doug Winter – RareGoldCoins.com …… CoinWeek Content Partner …… Doug Winter, owner/operator of Douglas Winter Numismatics and a frequent contributor to CoinWeek, has inaugurated a new series of sales of specialized collections called Concierge Sales. The following Frequently Asked Questions were pulled from his coin blog to help potential consignors. —CW If you […]

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Coin Photography: Where to Start?

By Jenna Van Valen, photographer at Douglas Winter Numismatics. I want to tell you all how to be successful in coin photography: you need to start at the beginning, and practice. When I started shooting film seriously, things were not so simple. I had a composition notebook I carried, I had to neurotically jot down […]

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Coin Photography: A Photo is Worth 1,000 Words (Except When It’s Not Enough)

A Guest Blog from Jenna Van Valen, photographer here at DWN. We’ve all heard the numismatic mantra, “Buy the coin, not the holder.” But what about those times we can’t view the coin in person? Surely we can’t all attend every convention, every auction, visit every dealer and view their inventory. We rely on dealers […]

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