Now, don't go profiling people just because they have a Chinese name. Or zero feedback. Or auction listings for coins that were never minted....
... has got to be this guy: 1889-CC SILVER MORGAN DOLLAR ~~ 1889 CC Morgan silver dollar. The coin pictured is the coin you will receive. I...
Because every once in a while, it works out. And when it doesn't, eBay Buyer Protection has your back. Or, perhaps more likely, because they're...
I see that they received positive feedback for a 10g Perth Mint gold bar that they sold for $152. Hmm.
I'm trying to adjust my statements to the level of this particular conversation. @tpsadler's taking pictures with the aperture stopped down, which...
That's one case where you may want your aperture to be larger, instead of smaller. Try shooting at f/4 or f/5.6, and see if that blurs the slab...
I bought a harshly cleaned ASE a few years back (2013?) with the idea of carrying it as a pocket piece to wear it down -- you don't see that many...
I think it might have been an emergency conservation measure because we were in danger of running out of smilies.
A few pictures might be worth a lot of words here. Here's a pretty well-exposed shot, with its histogram: [ATTACH] That big spike corresponds to...
You don't need to worry about the amplitude of the spikes on the histogram. They just indicate how many pixels have the corresponding level....
Nice! I see your point, but I'll still bet the TPGs would slab them -- I mean, yeah, they're more fragile than metal coins, but a drop severe...
I agree. I'd be really nervous about buying a camera with so little info available online. I don't know what country you're in, but here in the...
Well, I've been off to the Wikipedia article, and now I'm terribly curious about the "pressed galvanic coal" Notgeld coins it mentions. Googling...
I'm feeling a bit lazy; would you consider editing your posts so that each coin photo has a line above or below it saying which element it...
Great, now I've got milk all over my table. I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when the PCGS grader first saw this.
DING DING DING Almost any camera on a good, solid mount will produce better photos than almost any other camera that's hand-held. A $50...
1. I don't see where you mention how you have the camera mounted. If you're hand-holding it, you'll never get good results, except by occasional...
I'm going MS, and unless I'm missing a big hit somewhere, well into MS. It's nearly impossible to judge these from photos, especially with this...
Holy cow, that's a gorgeous coin! Is the reverse actually rotated as shown?
Yes, that's the kind of nonsense that would offend me. As I noted on the other thread, when I tried to buy a second GC with the same eBay account,...
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