Here's the story of how I was sabotaged by a dealer's auction coin image trap.

I recently purchased, on line, an 25c Seated liberty in the ever appealing PR66 grade.

This coin was the most alluring entity imaginable: Picture a Florescent red-gold Seated Liberty on a yellow-green pasture with the golden red sunrise rising above the stars in heaven. Breathtaking in its stunning vision. I was the high bidder. When I received it I was dumb-founded by a dingy gray surfaced phantom of what had been LOVE AT 1ST SIGHT.

Long story short: He got it back and replaced it within 24 hours with a very

nice PF66. Look very hard and very deep before you leap.

I later found out that this coin had been imaged on a flat-bed scanner and its

strong illumination source had caused color anomalies that were later computer enhanced to make vivid already unnatural colors.

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