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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2284389, member: 112&quot;]Spenser, you are assuming that the scratches are not there because you can&#039;t see any in that picture. What I was trying to explain to you is the scratches may very well be visible on that coin, they are just not visible in that picture because of the angle of the lighting used in that picture. Take another picture of the same coin, from a slightly different angle and the scratches may be plain as day.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s the thing about pictures, all pictures, taken from one angle you cannot see something, taken from a different angle you can see it. You can also make a coin look entirely different in pictures, merely by changing the angles slightly. I&#039;ve long used this coin as a good example of that.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]457174[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]457175[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]457176[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]457177[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That is the exact same coin in both sets of pictures, but look at how different the coin appears in each set. Most people, if they saw those pics, would swear up and down it was 2 different coins. But I took both sets of pictures, on the same day, and all I did was to change to angles slightly.</p><p><br /></p><p>The same kind of thing happens with hairlines or fine scratches on a coin from a harsh cleaning. In one pic you won&#039;t be able to see any at all. But in another pic they can almost jump out at you, assuming you get the angle right.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now the TPG had that coin in hand, they could tilt and turn it under a light and see that it had been harshly cleaned. But that is only because they could tilt and turn it and see it from all the different angles. Even in hand you won&#039;t see anything from one angle, but you will from another. The eye works the same way a camera does, it&#039;s all a question of the reflection of light.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now in that particular picture, just like you, I can&#039;t see any scratches or hairlines either. But what I know from experience tells me that coin has been harshly cleaned just by the way the coin looks in that picture. In other words I don&#039;t have to see the hairlines to know that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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