Some simple tips and techniques which even amateur photographers can use to obtain better results with minimal effort. Digital coin photography advice.

While I used the term foreign in the title of this report, I prefer to call coins minted in another country by their specific name or to refer to them as world coins or coins of the world. As a German coin dealer once reminded me, what I was calling foreign was like home cookin’ to him.

Grading is measuring the present condition of a coin to a theoretically perfect example of the same piece. I used theoretical in the above statement because no perfect examples of many coins exist that could be used for comparison purposes. I could be a nitpicker and suggest that no perfect coins exist at all.