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<p>[QUOTE="calcol, post: 3626070, member: 77639"]Interesting post and great analysis. Thanks for doing the work. </p><p><br /></p><p>Personally, I rarely participate in GTG. Yeah, I look at the pics of the coins ... can't resist that and am glad they get posted ... but don't feel comfortable grading from pics. Especially for AU and UNC coins, variations in lighting and imaging techniques can cause a huge change in perceived grade. For example, it's possible to make adjustment marks on early gold coins virtually disappear with imaging techniques. And I'm not that great at grading AU or UNC coins with the coin in hand ... influenced too much by eye appeal.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do look closely at ROF (real or fake) posts. And have made one or two posts on that myself.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I encourage fellow CTers to keep up the GTG posts ... wanna see them coins with or w/o a GTG tag! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Cal[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="calcol, post: 3626070, member: 77639"]Interesting post and great analysis. Thanks for doing the work. Personally, I rarely participate in GTG. Yeah, I look at the pics of the coins ... can't resist that and am glad they get posted ... but don't feel comfortable grading from pics. Especially for AU and UNC coins, variations in lighting and imaging techniques can cause a huge change in perceived grade. For example, it's possible to make adjustment marks on early gold coins virtually disappear with imaging techniques. And I'm not that great at grading AU or UNC coins with the coin in hand ... influenced too much by eye appeal. I do look closely at ROF (real or fake) posts. And have made one or two posts on that myself. But I encourage fellow CTers to keep up the GTG posts ... wanna see them coins with or w/o a GTG tag! :) Cal[/QUOTE]
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