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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1908122, member: 112&quot;]Yes it is. Unfortunately not everyone looks at it the same way you say you do.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is extremely common for just about everybody to take pictures of coins that show the coin in its best possible light. In other words, very flattering pictures. But not necessarily entirely accurate pictures.</p><p><br /></p><p>But you also have to understand what that means. While a given picture may be indeed accurate, that does not mean that the coin really looks that way. It is often true that the coin will only look that way when viewed from the same angle as the picture, and with the light, and same type of lighting, at the same angle as used to take that picture. In other words, if you look at the coin under a different kind of light and from a different angle, you may swear it is an entirely different coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now is it unethical or underhanded to do your best to show pictures that flatter the coins ? Of course not, it&#039;s only natural to do that. Have done it many times myself and so has just about everybody else that ever too a coin pic. And that is true if you are just trying to share the coin with others or when trying to sell the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>But when looking at coin pictures it requires a certain knowledge, a skill, as Tom mentioned, in interpreting that picture. And that is a skill that not too many have. And to have a highly developed level of that skill is even less common.</p><p><br /></p><p>It all comes down to one thing when you are buying coins. There are sight seen coins and sight unseen coins. And every time you buy a coin based on a picture, you buy that coin sight unseen. And buying coins sight unseen is a very risky business ![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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