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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EyeEatWheaties, post: 1744017, member: 26972&quot;]This is a different spin on the topic at hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have been building a large grading/study set using the 1909VDB as my coin of choice. I recently bought (2) 67RD coins from Heritage 1 month apart.&nbsp; It is important to add that I am very careful to keep my lighting and camera settings the same for RD coins in order to have consistent images for use in comparisons.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also sized all the images the same for a fair comparison.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The first coin I paid more than the second coin and was disappointed that the coin that arrived is probably close to a Red Brown designation if resubmitted. The second coin I won at opening bid - it turned out to be a much nicer coin than depicted dripping with blazing luster.&nbsp; It is apparent to me that Heritage is not careful with their lighting and settings at least not with High Grade copper and their images tend to hide nicks and dings where mine may actually exaggerate them.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You can click on the images for full resolution.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Coin#1 January 2011 Heritage Images</b></p><p><img src="http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z242/papasteeze/Coins/5b8a7335.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>My imgages - notice the strong color difference - bordering deceptive?</b></p><p><img src="http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z242/papasteeze/Coins/862823a0.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Coin #2 February 2011 Heritage Images</b></p><p><img src="http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z242/papasteeze/Coins/f417030c.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>My images - notice the strong color difference again - however this was to my benefit since the coin has blazing luster.</b></p><p><img src="http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z242/papasteeze/Coins/fb7bf3a5.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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