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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;WingedLiberty, post: 1270311, member: 26030&quot;]Two pages back (page 92), I posted a purple-toned 1884-O Morgan (that I had just bought) with images from the seller.&nbsp; That sparked a controversy as to whether the sellers images had been saturation-enhanced (i.e. &quot;photoshopped&quot;).&nbsp; I then posted another image with the saturation reduced by 30% just to see what that looked like (as an experiment).</p><p><br /></p><p>I promised to post an image of this coin as soon as I got it.&nbsp; Well, it just arrived a few minutes ago ... and I have to say I LOVE IT.&nbsp; It&#039;s even better in hand than i was expecting.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I tried to shoot it with my iphone in dim indirect sunlight (it&#039;s dark and rainy here today) ... so excuse my poor hand held iphone photo.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think the answer is, it&#039;s possible the sellers images were saturation enhanced, however it&#039;s also possible that with some really nice bright light and a better camera (and a more skilled photographer) this coin might approach the sellers photo?&nbsp; It&#039;s kind of hard for me to say for certain.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In any case, this coin is definitely a keeper ... I absolutely LOVE IT.&nbsp; I think this might be the best toned Morgan, purely in terms of color, of about 20 that&nbsp; I own (including an MS67STAR coin).</p><p><br /></p><p>This was the sellers original photo on ebay</p><p>[ATTACH]138883.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This was my attempt to reduce the color saturation of the sellers orig photos by 30% (as an experiment)</p><p>[ATTACH]138884.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a photo of the coin I just shot with my iPhone (hand held) in somewhat dark indirect sunlight (it&#039;s dark, cloudy, and pouring rain here today) no additional lighting at all.&nbsp; This was shot below 2 opaqued skylights in my family room addition, which is where the glare on the slab is coming from.&nbsp; This is even better in hand as my poor iPhone photo really doesn&#039;t do this coin justice.</p><p>[ATTACH]138885.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>So as a final effort, I took the sellers nice sharp and focused photos and then color-corrected and saturation-corrected them so they look more like the coin in hand. Posted below is that effort.&nbsp; This is pretty much how the coin looks live.&nbsp; I ended up changing my nick-name of the coin to &quot;Grapes of Wrath&quot; because the color of the coin actually reminds me of purple grapes.</p><p>[ATTACH]138891.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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