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Message:: [QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2742318, member: 71723"]Here's an excellent example for [USER=15309]@Lehigh96[/USER] and [USER=112]@GDJMSP[/USER] and me to analyze. I would never consider bidding on this coin. Why? Because I cannot see what I need to see to be confident of what I'm buying. There's not enough "there" there. No problem. Move on. Why am I not tougher on them for this listing? Because I don't think I could do any better, at least with only 1 obverse and 1 reverse photo. This needs various angles of lighting to see what I'd want to see. So, why not buy and return it if I don't like it? Too much hassle. My life is all full up. I don't have time for that hooey. One more thing: I don't know about you, but when I click that link, when the eBay page comes up, for a brief fraction of a second, the obverse photo shows without optical sharpening, and then WHAMMO, the sharpening kicks in. Enough right there to pass this coin by. I've never lost a penny on any coin I didn't buy. I just wait for the right piece and the right listing. When it's not about the "getting", but the "hunting", you fret far less over listings like this one. Where I live, we have a HUGE cadre of "I'll never have a coin slabbed" guys. I don't immediately suspect a coin for not being in plastic. My guess? The owners are too cheap to spend money on slabbing. Evidence? Over half of the slabbing I DO see locally is junk slabbing. No PCGS, no NGC. Lots and lots of old PCI.[/QUOTE]