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Edited by Ausjack
03/12/2012 6:45 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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From these pictures, it is very easy to appreciate the wide variation of opinions that arise when it comes to grading from the screen.
Picture 2 reveals virtually no surface blemishes, picture 7 reveals most of them quite clearly.
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Now you can see how I got stung with that Incuse AJ  |
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nice work AJ
next time try a few in B&W if you camera has that setting, would be an interesting comparison...
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you are a fast worker mate!
just out of interest, are they the same shots turned into B&W or are they taken with a B&W setting on a camera... I have just been wondering if they would look different...?
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TADARRRRR And the seller didn't like the feedback I left after doing this to me  sellers image  actual coin  |
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 trout And yes it's a setting on the camera stevo, so new pics  I wouldn't have a clue about photo shop stuff or anything like it..I just point, shoot, download, optimize it, upload and done..easy as once you've done it a few........hundred times  |
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darn that about the incused 50, I brought a 1931 penny a while back & the photo showed eight clear pearls from the best possible angle. In the photo it looked like a nice EF or above, in the hand it looked like a plain VF. That was a waste of $90 bucks. That's the problem when you get into a bidding war. I now (sometimes) know better.
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Buying from images can be problematic. I always expect the worse when I'm buying from a new seller whose images I'm not sure about. Sadly my expectations are rarely exceeded.
Copper nickel coins in particular are hard to image. And when I see what appears to be a higher grade copper nickel coin with darker lighting it's usually always going to be a bad coin. I got burned with an incuse 50c with similar lighting to the one Trout bought. Seller didn't grade it, but it looked nice. It wasn't. Live and learn.
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03/16/2012 5:48 pm
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To be fair though, silver coins that have been scanned always look a lot worse than they do in the hand. Trouts two pictures are of the same coin, they have the same nicks and dents, so I wouldn't necessarily blame the seller on this one. The reason you can get things so much cheaper on ebay is that there is a "risk" discount because you are relying on photos, you don't have the coin in hand. |
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 I don't know it's a bit "how's ya father" if you only put up one pic or like I pointed out with my pic's it depends on angle lighting etc and how sly you want to be..like taking a pic of your speedo in your car but making it just right so you can't make out that it has 1/2 a million k's on the clock or the big dint up the side that's the sort of thing I was trying to point out is all |
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Posted 03/12/2012 6:39 pm
thanks sel, glad someone can see my point and can appreciate what I was trying to point out 
you can pic your pic here 
done and done cobba, ask and it shal be given 
