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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;V. Kurt Bellman, post: 3195697, member: 71723&quot;]You obviously have superior photo interpretation skills of translating between 2 and 3 dimensions than I have been able to acquire as far as coins are concerned. It never worked for me, so I did what it takes to be able to function.</p><p><br /></p><p>I spent nearly 12 years doing glamour photography. I guess I &quot;know too much&quot; about how to tell lies with a camera, so I don&#039;t trust them.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have so many venues to buy coins live and in person, mostly locally, than I could ever hope to get to, or afford to buy, so I find NO loss from eschewing the Internet.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve never been about quantity. It&#039;s about the search. I will drive and have driven 50 miles to an auction to possibly buy ONE coin that I&#039;ve never even seen a picture of, just a date and mintmark listing. Sometimes an auctioneer&#039;s grade attempt, sometimes not. My favorite auctioneers I prefer to use, I know how they grade. There was one blind as a bat, but he died.</p><p><br /></p><p>Right now I have 6 auctions to attend between now and Thanksgiving, averaging about 600 lots each, without a single picture in any of them. You go, you look, you bid, or you don&#039;t and you go home.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s the way WE roll in Central Pennsylvania.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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