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Where can I view pictures of minted coins?


The Amigos

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There are lots of coin pictures everywhere. I'd like to say that there is one central place for coin listings, but there isn't. Some good sources, though, are:

 

cointracking.com

Trackable Geocoins Wiki (forthferalz set this up on Wet Paint and it has links to geocoin pages that have good pics)

 

What I usually end up doing is just using Google and searching the images.

 

That's just for finding pictures. As for using pictures, that's a whole 'nother ball of wax. If you find a picture on, say, geocaching.com of the same coin and it's a nice picture, here's what to do:

 

1) Send a message to the cacher who owns the coin and ask for permission to use the picture in your writeup.

2) Provided that you get permission, right-click (or option-click, for a Mac) on the image and "Save image as..." to store it on your hard drive.

3) Add them to your coin's picture gallery.

 

That's the easiest way. If you know HTML and put a check-box in the coin page's HTML option, you can insert a direct link to the image in the coin's description:

 

<img src="insert source here" alt="My spiffy geocoin or other alternate text">

 

To find the source, right-click on the original image and select "open image in new tab" (or "new window" if you don't have a tab-using browser). Copy the URL into the HTML for the tag in place of "insert source here".

 

Make sure that you get permission before you download someone's picture, and ESPECIALLY before you do a direct link. In the case of coin pictures hosted on servers other than geocaching.com, doing a direct link (also called "hot-linking") puts an additional burden on the server where the original image is, and many people have to pay extra for the extra use of server resources. So it's extremely impolite to hot-link, and add that burden, without asking whether it's okay.

 

I hope this helps!

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