Tonight's eBay "when life hands you lemons"...

...squirt them on your proofs before submitting them!

1963 PCGS PR68 Cameo Quarter and PR66 Cameo Frankin Half, Leopard Spotted Proof

That rarest of finds: a matched pair of coins that succumbed to surface contamination after landing in high-grade slabs!

You know what else was rare? My 1999 Accord with the passenger side smashed in just so, and that particular leak in the gas tank, and a delicate sprinkling of window glass across the seats -- and a sticker saying that it passed inspection (a few months before the accident). You could spend years looking for another one like it. But you probably won't.

 

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Well, the seller does admit that one could look through 10,000 and never find ones like these

 

Now those are FUGLY!! The lemon juice is certainly in the wound for whomever ends up owning those.. I can't believe that PCGS will no longer honor their warranty on stuff like this. It's just one of the many reasons I find it difficult to give up my coin buying money to get plastic slapped over my raw picks.

 

I have questions about one of those slabs on a small screen, and either way the photos seem to be designed to bring that out. Nothing is natural about the look of those pictures

 

Well, the seller had little choice. After all, the leopard can't change his spots.

 

WHERE THOSE SPECIALLY MADE???? UMMM!

 

Gesundheit Mr. PCGS Grader!

 

I'm guessing he took the photos near a window with the wrong white balance. They are pretty awful.

 

I'm a point and shoot camera guy for pictures and would certainly defer to your knowledge with pictures. I think I've actually convinced myself that background could have been 3 different colors the more I look at it.

 

I kind of think s/he wrote that tongue in cheek knowing full well those are full ugly coins.

 

I think I might have been wrong in my original assessment. Studying it more, the light is so diffuse, I want to say it's in a light tent used for product photography. I can see two clear light sources, 2 at 12:00 and 1 at 3:00. The proximity of the slabs to the sides of the tent explain the brighter areas as the source of the light. The overall enveloping of the soft light explains the unnatural look of the image. The blue cast is caused by the white balance being set to the incorrect setting for the light source.

The point to take from this is... This is what not to do if you want to sell your coins at a premium price.

 

Lol That's one of the best conclusions I've read for a post.

For my own curiosity do you think the background is white, grey, or that weird blue. My first reaction was white

 

Still an ugly coin even with the white balance corrected...

 

It's white. Which explains the blue color as well as the apparent under exposure of the image by about a full stop.

 

I think your wrong!! Now I really want to own that hob goblin spittle.. It's so attractive.