Barber Half Question: Would you want to own with this toning?

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• JJM Posts: 8,089 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 26, 2007 8:19AM

  if it looked like the pic, yes, if its dark as you say , no.............

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• 291fifth Posts: 24,710 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 26, 2007 8:20AM

  Proof 68? Not in my book.

  All glory is fleeting.

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• GoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭

  February 26, 2007 8:22AM

  not for me

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• IRCWCoins Posts: 895 ✭✭

  February 26, 2007 8:23AM

  
  
  << <i>Proof 68? Not in my book. >>
  
  
  
  Not with all of those flyspecks.

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• commoncents05 Posts: 10,096 ✭✭✭

  February 26, 2007 8:24AM

  Not with those spots.
  
  -Paul

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• ColonialCoinUnion Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭

  February 26, 2007 8:49AM

  In my experience, such as when we consign coins to Heritage, the big pictures look much more like the actual coin.
  
  Which is not to say anything about this particular coin, since I haven't seen it in hand.
  
  

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• bluelobster Posts: 1,220 ✭✭✭

  February 26, 2007 9:09AM

  The pics without the slab have nice PQ but even then I would not go near 68 money for that.
  Not sure about the slab pics my guess is the coin is somewhere inbetween, but you're right about buying from a photo sometimes you might get away with it but on a proof Barber with toning it's almost impossible to judge.

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• TomB Posts: 22,096 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 26, 2007 10:20AM

  The coin is a proof and it is not unusual for proof surfaces to show up as dark or black in a head on shot such as Heritage uses for their full slab images. The other image may very well be as accurate, or even more accurate, than the head on shot, but without seeing the coin in-hand it would be impossible to know what it truly looks like. This is not a case of Heritage toying with anyone's mind.

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  In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson
  
  

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• BECOKA Posts: 16,961 ✭✭✭

  February 26, 2007 10:44AM

  
  
  << <i>The coin is a proof and it is not unusual for proof surfaces to show up as dark or black in a head on shot such as Heritage uses for their full slab images. The other image may very well be as accurate, or even more accurate, than the head on shot, but without seeing the coin in-hand it would be impossible to know what it truly looks like. This is not a case of Heritage toying with anyone's mind. >>
  
  
  
  That is a good point. Although with that much toning it is hard to believe that a straight on shot would look that black? The example I mentioned in the first post was a Barber Quarter that had very similar toning to the colorful Heritage pics and then when I received it, it looked closer to the black slab pics.
  
  Either way it would be interesting to see it in person just to see which of the pics are more realistic.

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• TomB Posts: 22,096 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 26, 2007 12:29PM

  I agree with you and must admit that part of my defense of Heritage was based on the historically poor photography that they have produced over the years.

  Thomas Bush Numismatics & Numismatic Photography
  
  In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson
  
  

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