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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;windwalker, post: 1708006, member: 38923&quot;]About a couple of weeks ago I purchased a coin from a good friend who sold me the coin in good faith.&nbsp; I looked the coin over (fairly well I thought) and agreed upon a fair and inexpensive price.&nbsp; What we both thought the transaction was a legitimate untampered error coin.&nbsp; We both looked the coin over with a 5x glass and we both thought that it was what it purported to be.&nbsp; An error coin that was struck multiple times while in the production phase at the mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was so happy with the transaction that I thought that I&#039;d go and discuss it with two seperate dealers to get their impression of it.&nbsp; Dealer #1 thought that it was what both my friend and I thought it was and even said that it was worth sending it in to a TPG for grading and verification.&nbsp; Dealer #2 took one look at the coin and said that it wasn&#039;t what we thought it was and when told what Dealer #1 said told me that at best it would come back labeled as &quot;environmental damage&quot;.&nbsp; Not know what that term meant I asked him to explain it to me and explain how it could happen.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well when I got home I looked at the coin again with a 5x glass and still could not see what Dealer #2 could see with the naked eye.&nbsp; So not owning a digital camera went out and bought a fairly good one and snapped a couple of pictures.&nbsp; A couple of days later my friend came over to hear what these dealers had to say.&nbsp; Then I downloaded my coin pictures onto my computer (with his help) and there 5&quot; x 5&quot; glory spelled out for both of was the blatant images that neither of us could see with a 5x glass yet Dealer #2 saw immediately and Dealer #1 totally missed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Someone had taken a two coins and placed them in a vice and squeezed and then repositioned them again and resqueezed them again.&nbsp; It was until we expanded the digital pictures that we could see for ourselves the foolishness of what we originally thought was a find and a treasure.</p><p><br /></p><p>Needless to say both of us have a respect for dealer #2 and a jaundiced eye for Dealer #1.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m glad that I didn&#039;t run this coin out to the TPG or the lesson would have been more expensive.&nbsp; The best part of this lesson is that I now have a very good digital camera when I probably could have gotten by with a slightly less expensive camera.&nbsp; Both of us had a good laugh over the whole thing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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