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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Seattlite86, post: 3612925, member: 59737&quot;]Fair question, and I hope I can do it justice.&nbsp; I obviously cannot say with 100% certainty that this case was done intentionally, but there are certain indicators that I always look for:&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The photo on the left is much clearer than the photo on the right.&nbsp; It&#039;s not easy to see based on so little background, but even the background on the left shows more detail.&nbsp; If both photos had looked like the left one, I&#039;d assume poor photography skills.&nbsp; All the person taking the photo had to do from the first photo was flip the coin over and push the button again.&nbsp; Why would the second photo be this blurry?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Then there&#039;s the fact that the coin is damaged and bent, with the bent upwards side showing in the right photo.&nbsp; By taking a blurry photo, it minimizes the look of the damage and makes the coin look passable.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>With the increasing capacity of our phones to photograph, we often don&#039;t even have to focus the cameras ourselves.&nbsp; Any standard point and shoot phone can take much higher resolution photos than what is being shown here.&nbsp; Also, just about every photo capturing device out there lets you review the shot you took immediately after taking it.&nbsp; That means that someone had the chance to look at this and go &quot;yes, that&#039;s what I want&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, the photos are combined.&nbsp; That implies the seller has some sort of software and capacity to edit photos.&nbsp; Again, why would someone who knows how to edit and combine photos have such a poor photo?</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d also be tempted to see where it&#039;s being sold, what the price is, and how many other coins were photographed by the same seller.&nbsp; I sometimes find poor pictures of details coins sold by the same seller who is capable of taking decent shots.</p><p><br /></p><p>One thing I do with every coin I look at online is download it to my phone and allow my phone to auto correct the photo.&nbsp; Many &quot;glamour shots&quot; I see (especially of gold coins) are overly bright and the color is changed.&nbsp; My phone is smarter than I am and will make adjustments to make the coin look like it did when the photo was taken.&nbsp; Once this is done, many hidden details come to light.&nbsp; I definitely recommend this trick.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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