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<p>[QUOTE="Vess1, post: 1304837, member: 13650"]One other word of warning. Many of the sellers selling these toned coins have excellent photography setups. You'd be shocked at how photos can make coins look FAR better than they do in real life. The photo just screams for you to buy it. And then when you get it, it's not really that dramatic at all. </p><p><br /></p><p> Here is a Morgan I used to have. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f203/vessxpress1/coinalbum2/1887-2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p> It was really sweet, but I traded it on something else. This photo was the sellers photo. In hand, the toning was much darker and harder to see without turning it at an angle. You buy enough of them, eventually you will pay big bucks for something that turns out to look much different than the picture. I'd stick to buying toners at shows for that reason.</p><p><br /></p><p> FWIW, this is a natural, standard, toning progression on one of these.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Vess1, post: 1304837, member: 13650"]One other word of warning. Many of the sellers selling these toned coins have excellent photography setups. You'd be shocked at how photos can make coins look FAR better than they do in real life. The photo just screams for you to buy it. And then when you get it, it's not really that dramatic at all. Here is a Morgan I used to have. [IMG]http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f203/vessxpress1/coinalbum2/1887-2.jpg[/IMG] It was really sweet, but I traded it on something else. This photo was the sellers photo. In hand, the toning was much darker and harder to see without turning it at an angle. You buy enough of them, eventually you will pay big bucks for something that turns out to look much different than the picture. I'd stick to buying toners at shows for that reason. FWIW, this is a natural, standard, toning progression on one of these.[/QUOTE]
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