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Attribution Services

Do you have a coin that you cannot identify? Do you want to make sure a coin is genuine or learn more about it? Don't have the time or resources to do it yourself? We can do it for you!

We offer 2 levels of attribution service, Basic and Extended.

Costs:
The cost of either service is $25.00 per hour, in 15 minute increments. There is a minimum charge of $12.50 (1/2 hour). There is no charge for coins that we immediately determine to be unidentifiable. Return shipping is extra and not included in the hourly charge.

  • We have an extensive library of reference works and other tools to help identify your coins. Plus we are continually adding new references to extend our knowledge base.

  • The number of coins that we can attribute per hour depends on the type and condition. For example, it may take 10 minutes to write up a Roman imperial denarius in readable condition or the better part of an hour for a poor Greek bronze.

  • Unless you indicate to the contrary, we will limit the amount of time spent on any one coin to an hour.

  • We can attribute Greek, Roman (Republican, Imperatorial, Imperial and Provincial), Judean, Byzantine and Indian (to 600 AD).
Basic Service:
Includes authentication, characteristics (diameter and weight) and hand written attribution using the standard references for the type of coin.

Extended Service:
Includes the basic service plus a printed certificate with the coin image, attribution, characteristics and notes about the coin. One other difference between the basic and extended service is that the time required for us to make the certificate is included as part of the hourly rate. It takes us appromimately 15 minutes to image a coin and create the certificate.

Shipping:
We recommend that you send your coin(s) through insured mail. We will return them with the same amount of insurance unless you specify otherwise.

Email us for additonal information.

Imaging Services

For collectors or dealers. Are you tired of spending hours doing your own coin photography?

Costs:
The cost of either service is $25.00 per hour, in 15 minute increments. There is a minimum charge of $12.50 (1/2 hour). Return shipping is extra and not included in the hourly charge. There is a nominal $1.50 charge for each image cd that we create.

Details:
We will include the 'raw' unedited and full sized image for each coin with the obverse and reverse as separate images. And can provide a single combined image of the obverse and reverse. The combined image can be sized to your specifications, in either a compressed or non-compressed format.

The basic background would be either black or white, if you have a specific background color or image you can either submit a sample of the background with your coin or give the hexadecimal value of the background color.

We can return the images on a cd and/or as a zip file via email. Please note that raw images tend to be quite large, so we can recommend the email option only for those with fast Internet connections.

Shipping:
We recommend that you send your coin(s) through insured mail. We will return them with the same amount of insurance unless you specify otherwise.

Email us for additonal information.