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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 29590, member: 112"]Howdy TRVST - Welcome to the Forum !!</p><p><br /></p><p>I think you did see what everybody else saw, the weakness in detail etc. But it appears, based on your comments, that you are more trusting of the listed grade than some are. I'll grant you, it is possible it is just a poor pic. But I learned long ago that if you are going to bid on coins where all you have is a pic to judge it by - then judge it by the pic. For if you go making assumptions that it may be a bad pic and the coin is as good as the seller says - then you're likely to regret the purchase. I'm not knocking your comments - just making my own.</p><p><br /></p><p>But on another note - I would never, and I do mean never, purchase raw US gold from this time period unless I had implicit trust in the seller. Counterfeits abound in the marketplace - perhaps more now than ever before. And many times the person selling the coin isn't even aware of it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 29590, member: 112"]Howdy TRVST - Welcome to the Forum !! I think you did see what everybody else saw, the weakness in detail etc. But it appears, based on your comments, that you are more trusting of the listed grade than some are. I'll grant you, it is possible it is just a poor pic. But I learned long ago that if you are going to bid on coins where all you have is a pic to judge it by - then judge it by the pic. For if you go making assumptions that it may be a bad pic and the coin is as good as the seller says - then you're likely to regret the purchase. I'm not knocking your comments - just making my own. But on another note - I would never, and I do mean never, purchase raw US gold from this time period unless I had implicit trust in the seller. Counterfeits abound in the marketplace - perhaps more now than ever before. And many times the person selling the coin isn't even aware of it.[/QUOTE]
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