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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 189505, member: 112&quot;]First of all I did this because I was asked to, the owner of the coin wanted opinions. But more than that this is an exercise to illustrate just how hard judging coins can be. I had the coin in hand, and the first night I looked at it I was convinced it was a gorgeous MS64. And it is, the coin has beautiful natural toning and just drips luster. And because of that I completely missed something. Oh I saw the planchet flaws alright, on both sides. But even the large lamination on the reverse is lustrous. But I got so caught up in looking at the various errors, the color, the luster, a good strike that I missed the obvious. And that&#039;s where the pics came into play.</p><p><br /></p><p>And that&#039;s when I decided to do this this way. I tried to capture luster and color - both hard to do with a slabbed coin, but I&#039;d always managed before. I&#039;m not the best with coin pics, but I usually do OK. But this one, this one about whupped me. I must have taken 200 pics of this coin, and not one of them really presents what it looks like in hand. But together you get the idea.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, the other thing is to learn something here - to learn that coin pics may not always show you what you really want to see. In some of these pics, things are obvious. In others you can hardly see them at all. But it not my intent to hide anything with the pics - you just can&#039;t see them - so I showed you that. None of the pics were manipulated - they are honest pics.</p><p><br /></p><p>So anyway, let&#039;s see what folks can find. And please give your honest opinion of grade.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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