# Coins

- By: Bisson Frères
- Date: 1861
- Medium: paper
- Classification: photograph
- Dimensions: height 200 mm x width 165 mm
- Credit line: Gift of R.M. Maks
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-F-2016-55-3--e5be2a4bdc6467a266894c860e5e914b)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/twQGY/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Photography soon proved to be an ideal means for documenting objects. Drawings, glassware, archaeological finds, architectural fragments, ancient coins: art history benefitted from the camera. It was one of the domains in which photography, thanks to its greater precision, speed, and convenience, could supersede the older, manual techniques of illustration. Photographs, moreover, served as documentation in case of theft.