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I spoke with them for quite a while. Their goal was to make a self-contained, desktop lighting device that someone that's not all that skilled or interested in the finer points of photography could u… (View Post)

Any of the widely available key dates, probably. 1877 cent, 09-S VDB, 55 Doubled Die, 37-D 3-leg Buffalo, 16-D Mercury dime, 93-S Morgan (in lower and lower grade lately). The reason they're availabl… (View Post)

It would make the most sense to determine what the error is before grading the coin. If it's damage or a faked error, there's no sense grading it. (View Post)

If I have to wonder if something could be hiding on the coin that the image doesn't show, then I wouldn't say I could grade from that image. Does a proof have hairlines? Are there contact marks hidin… (View Post)

That's a little different from grading based on just an image. Given a coin and a grade, once you get used to the qualities of a seller's pictures, you can make a pretty good judgment call. Given a r… (View Post)