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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3972061, member: 112&quot;]Yes they were, but so what ? </p><p><br /></p><p>And please don&#039;t misunderstand why I&#039;m asking the question. Ya see, I&#039;m well aware that it&#039;s commonly repeated that coin pics &quot;need&quot; to be taken from straight on, no angle whatsoever. It&#039;s almost like it&#039;s a mantra of some kind to a lot of folks. But do they really &quot;need&quot; to be taken from straight on ? Or, is it even a good idea at all ?</p><p><br /></p><p>Consider this. When you&#039;re looking at a coin in hand to judge it, grade it, examine it, how do you go about doing that ? Do you only look at the coin from a straight on angle ? Or, do you slowly turn it to all kinds of various angles so that you might see what you really need to see ? The answer of course is that you slowly turn it at various angles so that you <u>can</u> see what you really need to see.</p><p><br /></p><p>So if that is the case, then how can it be a &quot;bad&quot; thing to take coin pics from a slight angle ? Or perhaps more importantly, how can it be a requirement that coin pics only be taken from straight on ? </p><p><br /></p><p>The OP&#039;s purpose in this thread was for folks to grade the coins. So how can that best be done ? Now I suspect some are going to have differing opinions on this, but let&#039;s look at the 2 pics of the business strike obv and then decide which one tells you the most. Which one does the best job of allowing you to see what you need to see ?</p><p><br /></p><p>Pic 1, at an angle -</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/c6a299fd-e05b-42d9-9c81-f99fbd4c386a-jpeg.1045023/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Pic 2, straight on -</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/9ba06fb4-6e75-4e0a-ba89-81c23b636469-jpeg.1045071/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Now neither pic is perfect, but I think pic 1, at an angle, does a far better job of allowing us to see what we need to see in order to judge the coin. And I think it probably does a much better job of presenting the coin to us as it might look in hand. I think the color is more accurate, I think the luster is represented more accurately, I think everything about it is more accurate than what we see in the straight on pic. And I think all of this is true because the pic was taken at a slight angle. And I think the reason pic 2 doesn&#039;t do this is because it was taken from straight on.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now like I said I expect there to be differing opinions, but that&#039;s mine. And why I asked the question - so what ?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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