Before we, analyze the above problematic, fear driven, subject-matter I propose

the following:

Every Picture tells a story and as a picture so does the coin picture.

Who loves pictures the most?

The Artist's Collection do!

And you can't have fun without a bit of wry humor and less boring facts.

You are allowed to be witty by universal law: free will.The subject of the coin dealer strikes fear deep into the center of the collector.At least it does in this collector. There are as many reasons as there are collectors. I'm afraid it's really too expensive and a bit pointless if you don't have a reason. An emotional reason is as good as any any other. But if you have an eye you are doubly handicapped: Too much eye and not enough resources.However, if you don't know the whole picture your walking blind. So what does one do? The answer is: research, pictures, data, comparison, coin facts, census, more research, commentary, articles, websites and much more.One cannot allow a dealer to make decisions for one. It must be based on hands-on experience of looking and handling many coins over time. You instantly judge a coin to be AU50 or MS60. You can't rely on the dealer to tell what you what grade a coin is. Go to shows. Ask questions. Touch coins.Then maybe every coin tells a story personally to you. And describe that storyin your comments.What story does picture tell you??This coin was a graded coin from the big two. However, the dealer chose to obfuscate it's defects by misrepresented and deceptive coin imagery.To see old comments for this Journal entry, click here. New comments can be added below.