New Harlan J. Berk, Ltd. Buy or Bid Sale, # 217

Another way of doing it I found is to click on the "Share" icon for the video; that also brings up the link to vimeo.com.

 

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Just a follow up to my first post in this thread concerning the Ainos tetradrachm in the HJB sale. After studying the photos I initially thought the scratch had been taken out of the cheek and it looked like there was some possible light smoothing. I have since watched Aaron Berk's video and I can see the scratch is still present on the coin and what looked like smoothed areas look OK and are not smoothed. The coin appears to be in the same state that it was in Nomos and Lockett. The still photo in the Berk sale is lit with much softer lighting than the rather harsh lighting of the Nomos photo, which must be the reason for the different appearance of the coin in the two photos.

Barry Murphy