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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ToughCOINS, post: 7301197, member: 20480&quot;]You should think more about what you write before you write it.</p><p><br /></p><p>eBay does not require sellers to provide good photos that could be used to match against a database.&nbsp; Even if they did, lighting intensity, lighting angle, camera angle contribute variables that cannot be adequately accounted for.</p><p><br /></p><p>it is impractical to police common coins because there are so many of them to be checked.&nbsp; Imagine looking for a gem BU MS65 1880-S Morgan Dollar on eBay . . . right now, searching with &quot;1880-S (gem bu, gem unc, MS65, MS64, MS66)&quot;, I find only 982 coins so described.&nbsp; Good luck with that!</p><p><br /></p><p>As concerns fingerprinting coins and maintaining such records for future reference and retrieval, exactly who do you think will bear the cost of doing that?</p><p><br /></p><p>With regard to legitimately rare coins, photo-shopping could erase marks, or coins could simply be listed out of focus.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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