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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;illini420, post: 754964, member: 19423&quot;]BNB, settle down a bit <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>You&#039;re working yourself up comparing photos.&nbsp; Remember, we don&#039;t collect photos, we collect COINS!!!&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>As you can see from the NGC vs. Heritage photos you can&#039;t rely solely on photos in your purchase of coins.&nbsp; Sure, you can get a good idea of what a coin looks like based on photos, especially when you buy enough coins and learn what a coin will look like in hand compared to each auction house photo, but a photo alone will NEVER tell the full story of the coin.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>That&#039;s why Heritage has lot viewing and if you&#039;re not able to attend the lot viewing that is why there are many dealers who will act as your agent to view the coin on your behalf and describe it to you.&nbsp; Once you find a dealer that you can trust and that you believe knows what you are looking for, the 5% or so fee you pay them to check a coin out for your is nothing vs. getting a coin you don&#039;t like or missing out on a great coin because an auction photo was bad.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I do hope that the coin you purchased, Coin #1 here, is as good as the photos look and as good as you hope it to be.&nbsp; But you did take a risk in falling in love with a single photo.&nbsp; If the photo used by Heritage was the NGC photo, would you have bid on it???&nbsp; probably not.&nbsp; But it&#039;s impossible for any of us here to tell you which one is a better coin based on the photos alone, we&#039;re just effectively telling you what photos are better.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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