Alan Kong wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 09 Jan 2000 13:05:25 +0100, in message
> <38787985.B9E78B4E@stud.ntnu.no>, Sigmund Kyrre Aas <as### [at] studntnuno>
> wrote:
> 
> >With Lincoln you better borrow a bust from your local museum, cause I
> >doubt the coins have adequate embossing to produce this effect.
> 
>   At one time I found some coin collecting sites on the Web and they had
> adequate images of many coins and denominations. I was able to create a
> bump map coin and one could make out the face but the lettering was
> barely readable.

The US Mint has some good online images that I have used for making coins
with using bump maps.

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