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<p>[QUOTE="Ardatirion, post: 2776471, member: 9204"]The difference is solely in the photo. CNG uses slightly different post-processing for printed vs electronic auctions. Its difficult to balance the print color on gold, silver, and various colors of bronze, all on the same page. I'm not really knowledgeable enough to speak more on it. </p><p><br /></p><p>Actually, I am the one who took the coin for consignment to 398. The collector failed to include the provenance and, especially for a lower-value coin like this that I am reasonably familiar with, I usually don't search every sale record. IMO, the coin was a little overgraded in the printed sale. It also had a decent pedigree attached, which together probably tried to justify the $200 estimate, which was obviously too high. </p><p><br /></p><p>As for the scales, a .06 difference is absolutely normal. It makes it a bit frustrating to catalog the hemitetartemoria sometimes![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ardatirion, post: 2776471, member: 9204"]The difference is solely in the photo. CNG uses slightly different post-processing for printed vs electronic auctions. Its difficult to balance the print color on gold, silver, and various colors of bronze, all on the same page. I'm not really knowledgeable enough to speak more on it. Actually, I am the one who took the coin for consignment to 398. The collector failed to include the provenance and, especially for a lower-value coin like this that I am reasonably familiar with, I usually don't search every sale record. IMO, the coin was a little overgraded in the printed sale. It also had a decent pedigree attached, which together probably tried to justify the $200 estimate, which was obviously too high. As for the scales, a .06 difference is absolutely normal. It makes it a bit frustrating to catalog the hemitetartemoria sometimes![/QUOTE]
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