My blog reader asking me where to find world coin picture? Especially coin picture for old Brunei coin. My answer is try to Google the coin title, you will never know what you will find. Old world coin pictures sometimes a bit hard to find but with patience and a bit of time wasting looking at the search result page, you will find what you are looking for. Do you know that I start my own web page by googling around? Google is the most powerful search engine and they really help me a lots.
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Photo: Don's World Coin GalleryBack to the story on where is the best place to look for a good coins picture. I am suggesting two place on the world wide web that you can use their coin picture for free as long as you are not using it for commercial purposes.
The first one is Worldcoingallery.com. This site had over 26,000 coin photos from over 1,064 places in their gallery. This site own by Don Norris from United States. The website has been in the world wide web since July 2002 with over 1 million unique visitor. Web design a bit old but there are a lots of information that we can find from this site.
Here what he is saying about his collection:
This is my collection of world coins. Here you will find foreign coin photos, coin values and other information useful for coin collecting. Some coins came from the coin mint, some came from coin dealers, some came from coin auction. Some are stored in coin folders, others are stored using other coin supplies. Many of these coins are silver coins and a few are gold coins. This information is useful for coin collecting software and cataloging coin types and coin values in U.S. dollars.
Photo: Result for Current Circulation Coin Sets link
Photo: Country tab menuThere are two ways to find your coins; Country tab menu and Current Circulation Coin Sets of the World link. When I click on the country tab menu for the Brunei coin, I can see that he also link the page with eBay coin sales. You can see all the coins that is on auction in eBay. I try to click on the Brunei 1887 Silver 1 cent and the pictures come with a small ruler showing the coin diameter. It should be better if they have all the coin information on the coin page. Clicking on the circulating Brunei coin sets, I can see all of the coins in circulation from 1 cent until 50 cents.
Photo: Coins on wikimedia commonsAnother site that you can try find free picture for your coin is wikimedia commons by wikipedia. Wikipedia is a free, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Free content, multilingual encyclopedia written collaboratively by contributors around the world. Wikimedia have so many category for you to choose. You can see picture of Coins by year, motif, composition, century and country. There are also collection picture of coins on Islamic, Medieval Europe, Tokens and Counterfeit.
Photo: Category in wikimedia commons
Photo: Picture Licensing for wikimedia commonsClicking on the subcategory of coins by country, I found pictures of Brunei coins. Photos placed one by one according to the type of coin, single photo for each type of coin. Its a little bit hard to find old coins picture in there though. I can only see people are contributing on circulation coin not the obsolete coins. One thing you need to be aware of before you will be using wikimedia picture is the picture licensing. Some of the picture is cannot be distributed. While some can be used on your site as long as you don't put text on the picture.
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