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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 4876224, member: 98035&quot;]A few times the auction house may manage to photograph a coin in such a way that it looks better in photo than in hand - that&#039;s disappointing, but not something I lose sleep over.</p><p><br /></p><p>This lot from Leu 2 still haunts me to this day:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1177776[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Looks like a massive lot of top-quality mid 3rd century antoninianii with a few scarcer types, and three of Macrianus, right?</p><p><br /></p><p>What I failed to realize from the pictures is that almost all of the coins suffered from extremely weak dies on one side or the other, so my dreams of keeping the best ones for myself and making a cool thousand bucks turned into a nightmare of watching them hammer on eBay for an average of half of what I had paid. It was a painful and expensive lesson to learn - but now I know to always assume the worst when auction houses don&#039;t clearly show both sides of the coins in group lots.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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