Actually, in the closeup the lines running the same way as the whole of the feature tend to support the idea of a die gouge, and there's a ton of...
The evidence you point to is evidence in favor of it being a lamination, not a cud. By definition, one should expect a cud to be sharpest at the...
I'm gonna to use this one for a teaching moment. The surface of a coin under dirt/crud patinates at a different rate than the exposed surfaces,...
That's important, too - at f/20 you're so far into diffraction that the details are undoubtedly blurred. I was on the AU58 bandwagon before...
Yeah, this. I've never had a problem as a seller but luck has probably had as much to do with it as the quality of the images.
Please accept my apologies, Mods; I thought I'd doctored that image enough to be acceptable. Won't attempt it again. For the record, it's good...
Polished, I believe. The brightness of the reflection off the edges of the devices most perpendicular to the lighting greatly exceeds any luster...
I really don't get the hate, as it is. If you're getting scammed on Ebay, the problem is in the mirror. You didn't do appropriate due diligence....
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