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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 755260, member: 15309&quot;]We also need to consider that Heritage uses and assembly line photography set up as well.&nbsp; In general, they do take very good photos, but due to the sheer volume of coins that must be imaged, quality will suffer occasionally.&nbsp; Many times the white balance is a little off which causes the color of the coin to be off in the photo and to my knowledge is not corrected by photo processing software.</p><p><br /></p><p>In essence, you can have a coin that appears very gold in the photo which is not gold at all in hand.&nbsp; Here is an example from my collection.&nbsp; The coin is a 1923 NGC MS65 Peace Dollar.&nbsp; The first photo shows the un-edited Heritage photo cropped.&nbsp; The second photo shows the Heritage photo after you hit auto contrast.&nbsp; The third photo is my photo.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o59/ACPitBoss/Peace%20Dollars/PeaceDollar1923NGCMS65Heritage.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o59/ACPitBoss/Peace%20Dollars/PeaceDollar1923NGCMS65.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o59/ACPitBoss/Peace%20Dollars/PeaceDollar1923NGCMS651-1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>In addition, plain golden toning is very common and almost never drives a premium.</p><p><br /></p><p>I favor coin #1 because it seems to have the best luster and surfaces of the three coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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