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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3757500, member: 19463&quot;]I agree with Black Friar&#039;s reason three.&nbsp; We rarely hold it against a seller when we buy a coin that looks better than his photo but we might hesitate to consign coins to a seller with poor photos.&nbsp; I can not accept statements about how a coin looks &#039;in hand&#039;.&nbsp; If you don&#039;t like the way a coin looks &#039;in hand&#039;, move the hand somewhere with better light.&nbsp; Don&#039;t curse the darkness, turn on a light. </p><p><br /></p><p>Many/most of the examples here show that coins reflect glare as well as they do light.&nbsp; Often the difference between seeing glare or not is a very small wiggle of the hand.&nbsp; Photos with no glare tend not to look metallic while coins with too much are harsh.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Quant. Geek showed an interesting difference.&nbsp; The lower photo shows excessive glare on the obverse upper left suggesting the coin was slightly bent or cupped.&nbsp; A slight tip of the coin would have changed this but for the&nbsp; better or just different would require trying it.&nbsp; The first image is too light but makes the coin look flatter.&nbsp; Each tells more about the light used for the photo than it does for the coin.&nbsp; That may be why some dealers are using movies to show high dollar coins that change in the light.&nbsp; Learn to read the images made by your favorite sellers and buy the coins you feel you will like based on experience.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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