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<p>[QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 3195697, member: 71723"]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 "know too much" about how to tell lies with a camera, so I don'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've never been about quantity. It's about the search. I will drive and have driven 50 miles to an auction to possibly buy ONE coin that I've never even seen a picture of, just a date and mintmark listing. Sometimes an auctioneer'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't and you go home.</p><p><br /></p><p>It's the way WE roll in Central Pennsylvania.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 3195697, member: 71723"]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. I spent nearly 12 years doing glamour photography. I guess I "know too much" about how to tell lies with a camera, so I don't trust them. 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. I've never been about quantity. It's about the search. I will drive and have driven 50 miles to an auction to possibly buy ONE coin that I've never even seen a picture of, just a date and mintmark listing. Sometimes an auctioneer'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. 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't and you go home. It's the way WE roll in Central Pennsylvania.[/QUOTE]
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