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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Beefer518, post: 2876320, member: 87737&quot;]A scanner focuses on the platen&#039;s (the glass) top surface, because scanners are designed and optimized for scanning flat pieces of paper. A coin in a holder is not even close to the field of optimal focus when scanned, so you end up with an out of focus image. The focus is &#039;acceptable&#039;, but as you can see, is not good enough to capture finer details.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, because it&#039;s a moving light, a scanner will mess with things even more.</p><p><br /></p><p>A &#039;serious&#039; seller would invest in a somewhat decent camera so they could provide accurate representations of the coins they are selling.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sellers like this I would only be comfortable buying slabbed coins from, as even though the finer details may be obscured, I know I can trust the TPG to have seen those details (or lack thereof) and graded the coin as correctly as they could.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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