CHECK THESE BAD PICTS

Dog97

This time I have to agree with the dealers who are always saying you can't judge a coin from a pict......

Seller lists a Barber Quarter....Ohhhhhhhh look at the green corroded PVC....no bids Text
A little photomagic....PVC damage all gone and a bidder Text

Seller lists an IHC...Ohhhhhhhh look at the green corroded PVC....no bids Text
More photomagic....coin is red now....or some weird color....no bids though Text

GRRRRRR!!!!!

Tonelover

The fraud started when that circulated Indian cent was graded MS-64!

Mark

Dog:

I haven't looked at the pictures yet, but I SURE hope these are frauds because I don't think I know you well enough to necessarily want you kissing my a$$.

Mark

Mark

Dog:

I just looked at your links. Thank goodness, I believe my a$$ won't have your lips anywhere near it!

The line I liked the best from the seller was about his photoshopped quarter: "GRADED BY ACG. IT IS EVERYTHING YOU WOULD EXPECT. "

Mark

wingedliberty

This is to be expected from the peddlers of ACG maneur.

Brian.

itsnotjustme

I sent the seller a question...

<< <i>Where did the green patch on the neck go? It looked purdyer with that there. >>

Coin Finder

Call me crazy Dog, but the first pic. was done up closer and it looks like there is a green color all over the slab as well indicating a lighting problem. The second scan is farther away with different lighting and no greens. I can imagine ACG slabbing a green corroded coin however I dont think this first one was, I think it is a scanner problem.


My opinion

Tbig

byergo

How does ACG stay in business? Time after time they are exposed as a sad joke within the hobby.

itsnotjustme

Compare the two. The coin isn't the only thing that changes color.

BillJones

It used to be "better coins though chemistry." Now it's better coins though photo editiing.

jonesy

How can they live with themselves?
Glenn

itsnotjustme

The seller just e-mailed me a third image. Label is darker like in the one with a green neck, but the coin shows no green. Maybe they opened the slab, cleaned it, and glued it shut!

Dog97

thebigeng that may be the case. If so then my opening post "I have to agree with the dealers who are always saying you can't judge a coin from a pict" applies.
ACG probably didn't slab a green corroded coin but the probability exists it had PVC problems that later worsened.
My header may have been overly harsh but at least I didn't email the high bidders or interfer with the auction and I stick by my opinion because the auction shows coins that looks PVC infested.

BillJones

Maybe they opened the slab, cleaned it, and glued it shut!

No, all you need to do is to push the brightness function of a photo editor program way up. That will fade the green as well as the slab labels just you see in these pictures. You can twick it with the contrast function.