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<p>[QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 96944, member: 1892"]All seriousness aside, I pulled these images into Photoshop and did the usual tricks of adjusting color levels and inverting the image - that tends to bring out some hidden errors in photographs.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://members.arstechnica.com/x/superdave/18790eha.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://members.arstechnica.com/x/superdave/1879reverse4nma.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>That brought stuff on the obverse - note the bagmark at about 4:00 from the mouth. The marks directly adjacent to the mouth are also somewhat plainer. On the reverse there's a ding between the IT of UNITED, and the nick outside the denticles next to RI looks a great deal nastier than in the photos.</p><p><br /></p><p>Don't get me wrong - this is a beautiful example. Just not, in my opinon, an MS67 and sure as heck not an MS68. I know I've mentioned my Ebay strategy here before, and to give you an idea of how it works, I would walk away from this auction at $325.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 96944, member: 1892"]All seriousness aside, I pulled these images into Photoshop and did the usual tricks of adjusting color levels and inverting the image - that tends to bring out some hidden errors in photographs. [IMG]http://members.arstechnica.com/x/superdave/18790eha.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://members.arstechnica.com/x/superdave/1879reverse4nma.jpg[/IMG] That brought stuff on the obverse - note the bagmark at about 4:00 from the mouth. The marks directly adjacent to the mouth are also somewhat plainer. On the reverse there's a ding between the IT of UNITED, and the nick outside the denticles next to RI looks a great deal nastier than in the photos. Don't get me wrong - this is a beautiful example. Just not, in my opinon, an MS67 and sure as heck not an MS68. I know I've mentioned my Ebay strategy here before, and to give you an idea of how it works, I would walk away from this auction at $325.[/QUOTE]
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