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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 1104562, member: 15309&quot;]I agree that luster is the most important factor in the mint state grades and is very difficult to capture in photographs.&nbsp; In addition, using oversized photographs definitely makes what are very minor imperfections appear to worse than they are and in the end leads to undergrading.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have found that photographs of 300x300 pixels work well at presenting minor coinage as it appears in hand while still being large enough to see and grade properly.&nbsp; Whenever people show huge photos online, I shrink them down to give myself a more accurate representation of how the coin actually looks in hand.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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