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Message:: [QUOTE="RedTiger, post: 646551, member: 19098"]Interesting. I think the "ad" got many on the problem coin track. Lines such as:-- "I might mislead in the ad," -- "This coin is graded ( or BB, or detailed) of a big 4 TPG."likely skewed the responses. Do you like the image better than the AU58 coins I pulled from Teletrade? To me, it might be scratches on the holder, or other photo variables, but the Teletrade ICG coin looks nicer than yours. The NGC coin looks about even. Posting a coin for sale and asking bidders to go on the photos on Ebay often leads to low results, unless the photo, the coin, and the seller are all outstanding. By having a pretend ad, it likely skews the responses, vs. a straight guess the grade, with the comment that the coin is in an ICG no-problem slab. Quite a few folks have been burned buying a coin on Ebay where the seller says use the photo, but the coin isn't certified. Sometimes forum members like to play "gotcha" by putting in a trick or twist in these kind of threads. For this one, the "trick" was that it was straight up. However, the initial "ad" made many folks think there was another trick coming. Another factor is how many may have read the responses before making their own comments. If they read a couple of comments about the coin having problems, others often follow their lead. Seems like more than half of the responses cited problems or at least an uneasiness about the coin. So it might be the plastic, or the photo. Hard to say how many are novices (less than five years) and how many are experienced collectors (more than ten years). Hard to say how many actually collect Peace dollars and know how to grade them. 1921's are a specialty within Peace dollars because of the one-year type. All of this makes for a tough read. For me the distractions on the neck led me to think there was something amiss. The other coins I highlighted had fewer or none of that kind of stuff going on. Again, it may be the reflection off the plastic. On this second set of photos, the closeup of the eagle does increase the chances of this being a dipped coin in my mind. Now that isn't all bad because a lot of the white old silver dollars have been dipped and are in top tier holders. [/QUOTE]

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