I'm going to post another group of quizzes; but first...

Got it.

How many blind numismatic collectors/dealers do you deal with, anyway? I think you may be exhibiting a failure to communicate, if it is any, based on this comment in your post:

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How does a blind person develop an "eye for detail"?

Or, this comment:

Is it me, or....if the person is blind, how will the person be able to read my writing, unless it is braille?

Is it me, or...if the person is blind and deaf, how will the auction be improved for the person?

I think, just a passing thought...and admit I could be wrong....it is failing in the quest.

Sincerely,
#7.

 

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emerald green $ sign, bold, about a 18-font

a small red 2, about a 6-font

 

Baby steps

 

Now describe the next image...

 

So...that's why you are full of... uh, better not

 

This is a flower, the center is a circle which has a color that is the way the sun feels on your face. Coming out from the center are 16 long finger-shaped petals that are a different color.

 

Kentucky, posted This is a flower [and?], the center is a circle which has a color [??] that is the way the sun feels on your face. Coming out from the center are 16 long finger-shaped petals that are a different color [??].

C+ Good. Nice try (for an auction the sun on your face reference is nice) but not enough of a detailed description. I can see why few others are not interested to post. Describing something in detail is very difficult. That's why it is probably better to joke about the method rather than fail the challenge.

 

C+ for @Kentucky is obviously just your opinion which is useless. IMHO

 

So, show us, mighty Whizard

 

Why, yes. Yes we can.

 

And mock. When appropriate.

 

Well, I don't see anything else except: Don't over think this.

 

Well, the blind person can feel.

So, hold this thing, we call it a flower.

The soft parts extending out from the center are called petals. they radiate out from the center and are colored white, although you can't imagine this, think of the opposite of darkness.
The center is the part where pollen comes from, it is soft and that is where bees land to collect pollen to transfer to other plants and pollinate them. They are colored another color from the petals. think of the warmth of the sun.
It looks like that.

 

Bravo. Well played by all actors ! Every one stayed in character. Take a bow. How is that for an economy of words and an accurate description ?

 

I'll add a couple more details that weren't in the latest descriptions of the flower image:

The center looks like a disc, but on closer inspection it appears to consist of many tiny round balls, each with a rough surface. There are many hundreds, crowded so closely together that they appear to touch. (I'd say something about each one being on a little stalk, but I can't see that in this photo.)

There are stripes running the length of each petal (the things surrounding the central disc), but those appear to be shadows arising from the shape of the petal, not differences in its "color".

There are faint letters embossed across the middle of the image. They appear to spell words or a name, but I can't quite make it out from this photo. This indicates that the poster didn't pay the image's owner to get a non-watermarked copy.

 

The watermark says "dreamstime".

 

I guess this thread is dead: Pretend you are writing a description of this object for an auction.

Here is what I am trying to pull out of you and the serious posters are getting close. I'm looking for DETAILS. Shapes, colors, textures, composition. All these things are attributes of the coins we collect. Take just one petal. Did anyone notice that many have a tiny, scalloped-shaped cut at their tip? This is the kind of eye-for-detail you mu$t develop so as not to get screwed! You need to learn to see everything on a coin so you can make an informed decision.

OK, the coin shows, this, this, etc. Is this, this, important? How does this, this affect its eye appeal, grade, authenticity? If you don't see something on a coin for whatever the reason (both good and bad things) you cannot make the best evaluation of it.

 

Glad I missed this circus. Guess I will be resigned to be “some of you (especially the jokers) will NEVER have a chance to be any good at grading or authentication EXCEPT in your own minds.”

At least I know how to buy coins graded by experts, hired by a legitimate grading company, and not a bottom-tiered operation.

 

Describing something for an auction is radically different from describing something to a blind person.

 

If you did this, it is TERRIFIC! May I use it in a column or is it copyrighted?

Kentucky, posted: "Describing something for an auction is radically different from describing something to a blind person."

...and that is exactly why I changed the question to "AUCTION COMPANY."




Morgandude11, post: "Glad I missed this circus." So do I. Unfortunately, you have added nothing useful to this thread I started in an attempt to be helpful to members below your abilities. However, you have succeeded in entertaining one joker so that I know the is still buzzing around above the ground.

"Guess I will be resigned to be “some of you (especially the jokers) will NEVER have a chance to be any good at grading or authentication EXCEPT in your own minds.”

At least I know how to buy coins graded by experts, hired by a legitimate grading company, and not a bottom-tiered operation."

That's what TPGS's are for. They allow folks to: "buy coins graded by experts, hired by a legitimate grading company."