Pretty as a picture. . . I hope!

Agflyer

Last night I was very excited as I won an eBay auction for a raw 1895-O Morgan in AU. The picture looked very nice as I compared it to others on eBay and from this board. I figured I had done my research as I checked out the seller (lots of other raw coins sold with positive feedback), made sure that the coin was "real", that it didn't look cleaned to me, etc. The only thing is that today when I went to gaze at the picture from the auction, it was gone! 1895-O I know I should have taken the picture when I had the chance, but I didn't think it would disappear that quickly. Now my hope is that I get the coin that was pictured in the auction. On the plus side, I spent lots of time comparing some of the signs of the original coin by where the date was relative to the denticles, the rounding at the bottom of the "9", toning, etc. and therefore I figure I could recognize it again in a heartbeat. Anyone have any other suggestions?
Rick II

cacheman

Write the seller and ask if you can have it....God knows that for $360 he should give it to you. CM

ursabear

I'm with CacheMan - they should drop you a copy of the image (if they still have it). Some auctioneers dump their pictures to save disk space on their web server (likely what this one is.)

One of the ACG sellers regularly drops images immediately after the end of auction for reasons I don't know...

Agflyer

I think you might be right on about them removing pictures for server space. I noticed that pictures in their feedback is also now missing. I dropped them an email and will wait patiently for a reply. They do have a return policy, so if I'm not happy with the coin the way that I remember it being I'll simply return it. I hope to one day have a picture to share with you guys. Thanks for the advice!
Rick II