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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 5392187, member: 44316&quot;]Yes. Whenever you buy a coin from a photo you should, when it arrives, critically compare it to the photo in order to learn to &quot;read&quot; the photos of that seller. This is a great thread with many examples to show how photos can give an incorrect impression of a coin. This can work to your benefit if you know a particular seller&#039;s photos make the coins look worse than they are. Silver often looks less metallic than it is. Colors of AE from a particular seller can be consistently off in one direction or another. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you have a patinated coin in hand, you will naturally rotate and tilt it with respect to the light source until you find an angle that brings out the detail. Often it is a pretty precise angle. In hand, you will judge the coin by its appearance at that best angle, not by its appearance at other angles. The seller might not have devoted the time to find that best angle and then the seller&#039;s picture might not show the coin at its best. Learn to read coin photos and you might be able to see that the coin is better than its photo. Learn to read coin photos and you will be happier with your purchases.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is one thing to learn to take better pictures yourself. It is another, and quite important, to learn to read pictures taken by others.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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