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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2403062, member: 19463&quot;]I only can disagree with one point on your post.&nbsp; Your hippocamp strikes me as correctly graded at 5/5 4/5 recognizing the perfect reverse strike and the textured obverse.&nbsp; We all know that NGC Mint state translates to normal people EF.</p><p><br /></p><p>I believe that many big houses are shooting coins in black and white and then tinting their print outs to look like color.&nbsp; Lighting coins to look good in black and white is a lot easier because surface glare tends to take on a blue tint that is hard to balance into a normal full color image unless you are willing to put a lot of effort into minor lighting adjustments.&nbsp; The first we saw of this way when gold coins were color and other metals were black and white but anymore I question whether the people who balance the catalog images have seen the coins.&nbsp; I know we ask too much for our 21%.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Does Big Collector wear the same size shirt as Harlan Berk?&nbsp; So many things to consider.&nbsp; In the 1840&#039;s it was fashionable for tradesmen to be photographed (daguerreotyped) holding the tools of their trade.&nbsp; I would love to do a portrait of a collector holding hammer and chisel (or chainsaw) and call it &quot;The Numismatist&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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