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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1907999, member: 112&quot;]What&#039;s serious value ? To you it might be $1000 or more, to me it might be $100 or more, to somebody else it might be over $10,000 - $100,000 even.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for image manipulation, yeah you can bet it happens. But what few consider is that pretty much everyone, even the most trusted, take pictures that show the coin in its best light, flattering pictures in other words. So does the coin in that picture really look like that ? Yeah, it does, but typically only when you view it with the light just right and from a certain angle. From other angles or other types of lighting you&#039;d swear it was a different coin entirely.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is why it is important to understand the meaning between the terms &quot;sight seen&quot; and &quot;sight unseen&quot;. </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s pretty simple, if there is no picture at all or if you look at a picture of a coin - that coin is sight unseen, no exceptions. Slabbed or raw, it&#039;s sight unseen.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you look at a coin in hand - that coin is sight seen.</p><p><br /></p><p>That is where the difference between the Greysheet and the Bluesheet come in. The Greysheet prices only apply to &quot;sight seen&quot; coins. The Bluesheet only applies to &quot;sight unseen&quot; coins. And the prices listed in the Bluesheet are a good bit lower than the prices listed in the Greysheet for this very reason. </p><p><br /></p><p>Any time that you cannot see the given coin in hand, slabbed or raw, and you buy it - you are talking a risk. Often a big risk. That is why the prices listed in the Bluesheet are so much lower - to help offset that risk. Professionals, the people who use the Grey &amp; Bluesheets, dealers in other words, have been burned way too many times by trusting a picture or the grade on a slab (any slab) to buy coins to pay full wholesale Ask for a coin sight unseen. They know what I have explained above is 100% true.</p><p><br /></p><p>It doesn&#039;t matter if it&#039;s a PCGS slab, and NGC slab, or one with or without a CAC sticker - they know better than to trust what it says on the slab. They know they have to see the coin in hand - sight seen - if they are going to pay Ask.</p><p><br /></p><p>So ask yourselves, should you as a collector be any different than what the professionals are ? It doesn&#039;t matter how much you know, or think you know. If you can&#039;t see the coin in hand, you may as well not know anything.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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