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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sean5150, post: 2263365, member: 75607&quot;]GSA Morgans are so cool because they are one of the few &quot;raw&quot; coins that you can feel pretty secure purchasing, so I don&#039;t feel that is an issue.</p><p><br /></p><p>Once again, the seller didn&#039;t doctor any images, he simply had the usual subpar images most people use when posting. Your second set of images still look nothing like a DMPL. I just don&#039;t think the seller is that much of a mastermind to be able to take what looks like a bad photo, and alter it to make just the coin look DMPL while retaining all the original qualities of the crappy photo.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know I said I&#039;m new to this, but I have a bunch of DMPLs in hand and I can truly say the one in the original listing was a PL most likely DMPL<i>. Edit: Looking at the photos again I think I&#039;m leaning closer to PL.</i> We will never know because some other buyer received it and kept quiet about it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I agree that buying raw coins can be risky, but the best purchase I have made so far has been a raw coin that graded with a value $1200 over what I paid. That is half the fun. It&#039;s like finding treasure. I will also buy graded slabs that are being sold at a reasonable price, but a lot of dealers put an asking price higher than the price guide. That&#039;s like buying a pair of shoes that retail for 50 bucks and the store asking 70. I also see a lot of dealers selling coins way above the price guide and saying &quot;under graded&quot;. To me, that is like buying a raw coin also.</p><p><br /></p><p>To some, the thrill lies in buying a slabbed coin that appears under graded. That is fun also, but both skill and luck come into play, just like buying raw coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I agree with seeing coins in hand, I just can&#039;t justify a 30% markup for the privilege of doing so. Honestly, the photos they use at Heritage auctions are pretty much like having the coin in hand, so there are sellers that use quality photos that really take the guesswork out of things. The seller in question was just typical, but even so the photos were enough to me at least to know the approximate condition of the coin (if it was the right one!)</p><p><br /></p><p>Once again, the coin I received is very nice! It just wasn&#039;t the one I bought, so this isn&#039;t even a question of receiving a coin that looked better in the pictures. It&#039;s like if I bought a Camry but received an Accord.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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