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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;howboutatrade, post: 2050168, member: 10387&quot;]It needs to look like it does in hand.&nbsp; &quot;Highlighting&quot; something on the coin is nice, but not representative of what it looks like in hand.&nbsp; When you have the coin, in good light, which is the better example of what you see?&nbsp; Is the rub on the cheek more like picture 1?&nbsp; Are the marks in the hair around the ear area more like Picture 2?&nbsp; Is the spot in the field up and to the left of the number &quot;1&quot; more like picture 1 or picture 2?&nbsp; Is it a bright coin (picture 2) or a more metalic look (picture 1).&nbsp; Maybe the coin looks different than either of these pictures.&nbsp; We are looking at pictures that are very magnified compared to looking at the coin with eyes at no magnification.</p><p><br /></p><p>This does not even mention that computer screens are terrible to use as a judge as all are different and none are calibrated for color.&nbsp; So the coin will look different on different screens (if you have two screens, move the photo between them and you can see the changes).&nbsp; This is one big reason coin pictures are so difficult...what looks like the coin in your hand, on your screen, will look different to someone else using a different screen.&nbsp; Talk to artists/graphics people...computer color is terrible for judging color (has to do with backlit screen versus reflected light off the object)</p><p><br /></p><p>Try your best at getting the picture to look like the coin in hand.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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