I have a request for members posting certified coins from their collections...and Friday pics.
Insider2
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I enjoy viewing your coins. However, unless we are playing GTG, I am begging everyone who posts a Trueview to please post the coin's grade along with its image.
I know there is a way to look up the Cert. # but this little extra step by you will be very welcomed and save the annoyance of breaking the "flow" of your post or discussion to look up a grade. THANKS to all who start to do this.
PS The Friday Photos from all of you are one of my favorite parts of CU. A photo w/o a location leaves me wanting more.
Please try to add that info. While I'll bet all the "photoheads" on this form would like to know the camera you used, lens, or
I-phone type, I'm just asking for the location.
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why do you need a grade to enjoy a coin's beauty?
Besides having a "personal" opinion about a coin's grade, any "TRULY INFORMED" collector NEEDS to learn how the TPGS's grade coins. Understand?
Disagree? 
I did not say where the Baby Great White Shark I took a photo of yesterday when I was on my kayak in the random picture thread ...
Well, I can say I was having way more fun than the super rich who play at Torrey Pines Golf Course .....
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I think it’s fine as it is. Enjoy the coins. Somehow collecting seems more pure when you’re looking at just the coin without the grade.
Roger, WILCO:
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Agree with Insider2 that it would be helpful to caption pictures unless it's obvious what is being pictured.
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I like the TV.... adding the grade would be helpful, though I do not look up every one I see...just a few. Cheers, RickO
I disagree because TPGs do not grade from pictures but coins in hand, but you already knew that. Luster , eye appeal, depth of mirrors, hairlines are not consistent among photographs and different photographers. I could show some proof coin pictures that would be difficult to get close to what TPG called it.
I will try to remember to do so in the future.
I have only looked up one and decided it was too much trouble. Therefore my request.
That's too bad and I agree; however, some collectors don't get the privilege of attending shows, auctions, etc and only have pictures of graded coins on the Internet and in books to help them learn to grade. IMO, it helps.