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<p>[QUOTE="brg5658, post: 1671789, member: 29751"]Changing the "exposure" of the images doesn't help. Retake the photos and actually put some light on the COIN. :scratch: You can't fix bad photography in post-processing in this case.</p><p><br /></p><p>My problem with the coin being a 65 is the obverse. The pictures you posted are not good, so I'm only going from what I can see. But, I see lots of marks, and I really dislike the spotting and white crud that appears to be muting the luster in the entire lower left quadrant (6 o'clock to 9 o'clock). When I first opened your post, my eyes read "MS63" on the holder pictures -- and I thought, "that's a nice looking MS63 common Morgan". Then, I read your post, and realized the holder said MS65. My thoughts were then, "Wow, that's a low end MS65 Morgan, looks MS64 to me". I honestly think your coin would not CAC -- that is, it is in my eyes a low-end "C" quality MS65 coin <b><u>at best</u></b>.</p><p><br /></p><p>To each his/her own I guess.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="brg5658, post: 1671789, member: 29751"]Changing the "exposure" of the images doesn't help. Retake the photos and actually put some light on the COIN. :scratch: You can't fix bad photography in post-processing in this case. My problem with the coin being a 65 is the obverse. The pictures you posted are not good, so I'm only going from what I can see. But, I see lots of marks, and I really dislike the spotting and white crud that appears to be muting the luster in the entire lower left quadrant (6 o'clock to 9 o'clock). When I first opened your post, my eyes read "MS63" on the holder pictures -- and I thought, "that's a nice looking MS63 common Morgan". Then, I read your post, and realized the holder said MS65. My thoughts were then, "Wow, that's a low end MS65 Morgan, looks MS64 to me". I honestly think your coin would not CAC -- that is, it is in my eyes a low-end "C" quality MS65 coin [B][U]at best[/U][/B]. To each his/her own I guess.[/QUOTE]
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