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Dan50Dan50 Posts: 1,818 ✭✭✭
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When it came, looks like the picture "may have" been altered to look FB? But when in hand it will not match up under any lighting condition to look like it's FB ebay picture. The coin is the same one, but the bands are no where near what the eBay picture shows it to be.
Yes I know about lighting changing the look of a coin. But when blown up, this photo looks tampered with. The pixel shades are not consistant with those that surround the area.
So where is the best place to have said picture analyzed and documented?
Dan

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  • lathmachlathmach Posts: 4,720 ✭
    Send it back for a refund.

    Ray
  • Coin FinderCoin Finder Posts: 7,722 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This happens a lot with toned coins as well. do not buy toned coins from ebay unless you are sure the colors are true, that is, absent of "special Lighting" ....the coin looks like one you would like to own.

    As for FB yes, be very caeful, get a commitment for a return policy before you bid.
  • dorkkarldorkkarl Posts: 12,691 ✭✭✭
    it would hardly be a shock for a ebay scammer to doctor a digi-pic! sorry you got hosed

    K S
  • PetescornerPetescorner Posts: 1,220 ✭✭


    << <i>So where is the best place to have said picture analyzed and documented? >>



    Right here, of course! We're all experts. image
  • percybpercyb Posts: 3,339 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>So where is the best place to have said picture analyzed and documented? >>



    Right here, of course! We're all experts. image >>



    What is FB?
    "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." PBShelley
  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,616 ✭✭✭✭✭
    full bands looks like it was maybe photoshopped from a true FB coin??
    theknowitalltroll;
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow.. what a surprise... NOT!!!! I am amazed that anyone would even be mildly surprised at such an occurence. Cheers, RickO
  • Dan50Dan50 Posts: 1,818 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I am amazed that anyone would even be mildly surprised at such an occurence. Cheers, RickO >>


    You would be more than amazed, and more than mildly surprised if I were to name the WELL KNOWN SELLER.
    Of course this will not happen without expert proof, as should always be the case in matters such as this.
    Dan
  • Mercury10cMercury10c Posts: 2,958
    Was it coin_carolina?
    He's been known to do this.
    C'mon, tell us.
  • roadrunnerroadrunner Posts: 28,371 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If it's Harbor Coin, you're plain out of luck.

    roadrunner
    Barbarous Relic No More, LSCC -GoldSeek--shadow stats--SafeHaven--321gold
  • FairlanemanFairlaneman Posts: 10,428 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A couple of questions. Raw coin? Was it being sold as a FB coin? Were you taking a chance?

    Many of the pictures I have taken of Merc dimes through the years can make the coin look like it has FB's. It only takes a very slight change in angle to achieve this. Lately with Roosevelts the same pattern has shown up. What I usually do is look at a detail that should also be struck up if the coin actually has FB's. If that detail is not there I disreguard the FB contention. I suppose you already know this but maybe a few others do not.

    PM me with the auction number. I would like to see this coin.

    Thanks.
    Ken

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