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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 790362, member: 112"]You are quite correct that pictures can show you things or hide things. You can take a hundred different pictures of the same coin and have all of them look different. Other than what I have already said there are a few other things that a lot of people don't realize that also play a part in my opinion. One notable thing would be that fully 80% or more of all raw, older coins are problem coins of one kind or another with the majority of them having harsh cleaning as the problem. Now the number, 80%, may seem unusually large to you or even unbelieveable. But that is the number that most experts use. And, there is a good reason the number is so large. The reason is this - up until the 1980's pretty much every numismatic book or article you could read advised that coins should be cleaned, with a plethora of different methods. And the majority of collectors followed that advice. So the odds of finding or already owning an older coin that has not been harshly cleaned are stacked against you. The SLQ you posted,the odds are quite good that those scratches you see on it were there before the coin ever made its way into the ground. Now could I be wrong about the coin ? Of course. But without seeing it in hand or submitting it to a TPG for confirmation - and it's not worth doing that - my opinion based on the pics is all I can offer.[/QUOTE]