http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330580316893&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT This Lincoln looks too good to be .....Am I missing something? It appears to be extremely clean? Thanks Ed
This particular seller has been discussed in depth here on CT... all his/her coins look alike... every single one. The consensus was they're doing something to their photos to make them look like that. Look at the rest of the auction photos to see the similarities: http://shop.ebay.com/nancye913/m.html?_trksid=p4340.l2562
Eric has been much talked about here. He has been pretty well proven to be a coin doctor. However, that is probably a very good likeness of the obverse. I wonder what the reverse looks like?
I would be most interested in seeing the thread that shows his pictures have been enhanced. A lot of people have felt that, but every first hand experience has show otherwise. However, we have also found many coins he bought as problem coins (spotted, etc.) and then sold as problem free. i.e. the spots are gone.
I thought someone was able to make a cent look like that with photoshop if I remember right... it was a whole ago tho.
Yep, it was awhile ago, and the bottom line may well have been that the coins were "doctored" to look like that (I remember some member/members had purchased coins from him); and there was alot of talk (as Matt states) about "photo adjusting" to remove every little ding and to give the coin a "matt finish". Regardless, as the OP states, the coins look way too clean and perfect.
100% coin doctor. I bought one of his coins for experimental purposes, it was an EF coin acid stripped and made to look MS with some sort of paint or nailpolish. It was completely removed with acetone and then xylene revealing a stripped coin underneath. End of story.
