Always Make Certain the Online Image of a Coin Matches the Coin in Question
TomB
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Howdy everyone.
It's been more than two years since I started a thread on the PCGS boards, perhaps the longer tenured members will remember the threads I would ocassionally start, and maybe some will even be glad to see another. Anyway, I wrote a thread about this coin on these boards when I bought it in June of 2002 but now that I have a very capable camera I thought I would start another thread and actually show the coin off in it.
I had been cruising the Washington quarter section of ebay when a title caught my attention and the title said something like "Spectacular rainbow...". Well, I had to look and when the auction page opened there was an awful, dark brown, no luster low end MS Washington staring at me. I was about to close the page when I also noticed that the Washington in the image was a 1948-S and the title of the auction stated it was a 1947-S.
To those who study the Washington quarter series, the 1947-S stands out as one of the best issues for a combination of strike, luster, toning and overall quality. So, I thought that the auction image might be incorrect. To determine this, I copied the URL of the image embedded in the auction and changed the URL from its "1948S" text to "1947S" and then hit enter. That did the trick as an image of a wonderfully toned 1947-S appeared in front of me.
Fortunately for me, we don't have to turn this thread into a hypothetical ethics thread because I immediately emailed the seller to tell him that he had the wrong URL up in his auction and that he would ge no action on his coin. Two days later he did not respond and the image was still wrong so I emailed him again. My wife asked me why I would do such a thing since I desperately wanted the coin in the image, and, she had a point. D'oh! Anyway, the seller neither replied nor did he change the image. I was the high bidder on the coin at $42 including shipping and have been very pleased and guilt-free since.
Recently, I purchased a Nikon D70 and I have been taking pictures of some (actually, many) of my coins and this coin was one of them to be imaged. The images are fairly accurate and the coin is in a PCGS MS66 holder although it is a true MS68 except for a scratch through Washington's head! I guess that that is okay, though, as if it were graded MS68 I definitely would not have kept it.
Here are the images. This coin is the perfect object lesson in checking out all the details of any listing you start and to also dig a little if a listing makes you think there might be more to it. By the way, the coin is worth many multiples of what I paid.
It's been more than two years since I started a thread on the PCGS boards, perhaps the longer tenured members will remember the threads I would ocassionally start, and maybe some will even be glad to see another. Anyway, I wrote a thread about this coin on these boards when I bought it in June of 2002 but now that I have a very capable camera I thought I would start another thread and actually show the coin off in it.
I had been cruising the Washington quarter section of ebay when a title caught my attention and the title said something like "Spectacular rainbow...". Well, I had to look and when the auction page opened there was an awful, dark brown, no luster low end MS Washington staring at me. I was about to close the page when I also noticed that the Washington in the image was a 1948-S and the title of the auction stated it was a 1947-S.
To those who study the Washington quarter series, the 1947-S stands out as one of the best issues for a combination of strike, luster, toning and overall quality. So, I thought that the auction image might be incorrect. To determine this, I copied the URL of the image embedded in the auction and changed the URL from its "1948S" text to "1947S" and then hit enter. That did the trick as an image of a wonderfully toned 1947-S appeared in front of me.
Fortunately for me, we don't have to turn this thread into a hypothetical ethics thread because I immediately emailed the seller to tell him that he had the wrong URL up in his auction and that he would ge no action on his coin. Two days later he did not respond and the image was still wrong so I emailed him again. My wife asked me why I would do such a thing since I desperately wanted the coin in the image, and, she had a point. D'oh! Anyway, the seller neither replied nor did he change the image. I was the high bidder on the coin at $42 including shipping and have been very pleased and guilt-free since.
Recently, I purchased a Nikon D70 and I have been taking pictures of some (actually, many) of my coins and this coin was one of them to be imaged. The images are fairly accurate and the coin is in a PCGS MS66 holder although it is a true MS68 except for a scratch through Washington's head! I guess that that is okay, though, as if it were graded MS68 I definitely would not have kept it.
Here are the images. This coin is the perfect object lesson in checking out all the details of any listing you start and to also dig a little if a listing makes you think there might be more to it. By the way, the coin is worth many multiples of what I paid.
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“It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.” Mark Twain
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The attachments went into my folder as different names than I had them saved on my computer and so I had to determine what file name they had. They should be up now.
In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson
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I've used that URL trick in other circumstances. SOmetime's people think just because an image is not linked, no one will see it.
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AWESOME COIN- I LOVE STUFF LIKE THAT
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