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Message:: [QUOTE="illini420, post: 763829, member: 19423"]More importantly than buying from dealers with good photos/descriptions, is buying from a dealer with a decent return policy.  If you are permitted to return the coin within 7-10 days of your receipt for any reason for a full refund, then buying online can become preferable to buying in shops or in shows as you'll have the chance to inspect the coin in hand before making your final purchase decision on the coin. Sure, in most cases you'll be out the return postage to the dealer if you decide against the coin, but that cost probably isn't much different than the gas you'd burn driving to various shops/shows to see the same coins.   Once you find a dealer that knows what you like, you can get much better descriptions of coins via email or telephone.  That way, the chances of getting a great coin and not having to return go way up.  There are a few dealers that I will and have bought coins from based on an email, price and a description of "I know you'll like it."  For those few dealers, no photo in advance is necessary as they know what I like and I know their standards of quality.  And in the off chance I don't like it, it only costs me a couple of dollars to send it back.[/QUOTE]