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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ToughCOINS, post: 3655719, member: 20480&quot;]I don&#039;t disagree with your assessment that the TruView photos often conceal meaningful flaws.&nbsp; The goal of a photographer should always be to depict the coin as realistically as possible.&nbsp; Unfortunately, they only get one shot of each side to do so, and there are an infinite number of perspectives from which to examine a coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>In PCGS&#039; defense, I think they do pretty well compared to some others, but no one is perfect.&nbsp; Missing distractions on a coin, or even secondary positive attributes is often a by-product of capturing the coin&#039;s most important attributes adequately.</p><p><br /></p><p>As concerns being able to read photos that de-emphasize certain features, whether intentionally or not, that is a learned process, and takes a lot of time.&nbsp; I&#039;m still frequently surprised by what I missed when a coin purchased from photos arrives in the mail.&nbsp; Those lessons accumulate and build one&#039;s knowledge base . . . much of it undocumented, and retained as experience-based intuition.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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