1892 Quarter
JCB1983
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Really took a liking to this Barber Quarter. I've been focusing on a whole lot of Toned Franklins and this was nice for a change. I'm hoping that the coin is even more crisp in hand. Thoughts please? TY
~Jason
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-Paul
In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson
Doug
That looks like a really nice coin but I can't see some 15% or so of the surfaces. Just too hot/white. I see the CAC bean, the NGC grade, but why make a potential customer rely on those things alone? Why not provide decent imagery of the coin itself to represent your item and company? Why leave anything to the imagination? I can't believe shooting a few photographs with a decent set-up would be prohibitive. And if you must do a scan - well, I think the images can be better than this. I used to get decent results even with Pr Mercs. What is the upside to scans like this? If someone wanted me to buy from these images...I'd ask for more images. I used to buy from DLRC - and the images were much, much better. This was 3 and 4 years ago. BTW, they are excellent in terms of service and over-the-phone descriptions with coin in hand! If I started buying Pr 37-42 again regularly, I know where I'd look.
Best wishes,
Eric
Too white for my tastes. Would much prefer a little bit of color on original skin. Quality and separation from other 64's is what I would want. This coin
looks like all the other 64's in holders: white, a few ticks, etc.
<< <i>Would much rather buy a comparable PCGS coin for not much more money. The sticker on this particular coin means less than you might think.
Too white for my tastes. Would much prefer a little bit of color on original skin. Quality and separation from other 64's is what I would want. This coin
looks like all the other 64's in holders: white, a few ticks, etc. >>
Well, yes. I agree. Stickers don't appear strongly on my radar in any event. This looks dead, dipped out and painfully naked. Just not for me. Anyway, I was addressing the scans. One reason I liked DLRC was because of the color/eye appeal rating system they have. I used it effectively to buy the most beautiful deeply toned 39-42 Pr coins and Seated/Barber 10C.
Best,
Eric
<< <i>Having a color/rating system from the seller is "nice." Using it effectively as a buyer is the hard part. Without seeing a coin in person such a system is fairly useless in today's world. >>
I found after several purchases, and yes, several returns, I was able to gauge quite quickly what I was being offered. That in tandem with long and fruitful conversations with a specific salesman who name I honesty forget, resulted in many nice coins in my collection. I guess I kept a little over 50% of what I was shown at first, then more and yet more. The helped me purchase my Goldberg Benson Pr Barber 10c,which they imaged as lifeless mid-brown gloss. The Goldberg catalog showed a concentric rainbowed beauty and this was confirmed over the phone by sending them the Goldberg image. It was night and day. The coin actually looked like the original auction plate in hand. I was...HAPPY! Most everyone here thought it was a true bump up from the 92 cam I had. Their rating system was also useful for toned Pr Mercs and so on. I paid for my return privilege happily when that started, and learned to read those scans. It was well worth my time. That said, THESE images now are just not what they had 4 years ago - that is evident. Such a system with images like this would be worthless indeed. That is why my first post to this thread was about the image quality. Where did those nicer images go??
Best wishes,
Eric
Having bought many coins from DLRC I'm betting this coin is much nicer in hand than the image shows it to be.
Mike
<< <i>... I'm betting this coin is much nicer in hand than the image shows it to be. >>
It's always a nice surprise. Mayber there's something to be said about not taking a super picture?