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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 26058545, member: 10461&quot;]I&#039;ll never buy from a stock photo if there&#039;s somewhere else I can get the same product and actually <i>see</i> what I&#039;m getting.&nbsp; And with US coins, particularly silver dollars, you&#039;ve got <i>thousands</i> of places to look, and thus can avoid sellers who use stock photos.</p><p><br /></p><p>One time I <i>did</i> buy from a stock photo was from a gold coin dealer selling those little rectangular gold Japanese <i>bu</i> coins.&nbsp; I bought one of those, sight-unseen, and as I recall, PCGS later graded it XF45.&nbsp; So I did OK on that one.&nbsp; The current one in my collection is an <a href="https://www.colleconline.com/en/items/309469/coins-world-japan-edo-period-ca-1832-1858-gold-2-shu" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.colleconline.com/en/items/309469/coins-world-japan-edo-period-ca-1832-1858-gold-2-shu" rel="nofollow">MS63</a>, but I acquired it already slabbed, and it was <i>not</i> a sight-unseen purchase.&nbsp; My point here is that yeah, OK, it is <i>sometimes</i> acceptable to buy sight-unseen, especially if it&#039;s slightly more exotic stuff you won&#039;t see elsewhere, but <i>generally</i> speaking, I try to avoid &quot;buying a pig in a poke&quot;, as the old saying goes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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