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I found this on another forum How do you rate as a potential Ebay seller? 1. A coin you are listing has bronze disease. You would describe this in your listing as… (a) lovely green patina ( requires mild cleaning/wouldn’t mention it © I would never sell such a coin. 2. The best way to describe those Kushan slugs you’d dipped in toilet-cleaning acid last week is… (a) It’s amazing how, even after more than 2000 years, you can still see the original mint luster on these coins. ( The coins have been cleaned mildly to remove tough grime. © I would never sell such coins 3. A coin you have been unable to attribute is best described as… (a) {Type emperor}, {Type mint) EXTREMELY RARE. UNLISTED!!!! DON’T MISS IT!!!!!!! ( Rare ancient coin © Unattributed 4. The best way to pack a high-grade coin before shipping it to the buyer is to (a) tape it to an old newspaper page, fold it up, and stuff the damn thing inside the envelope. ( use cheap packaging, but at least place the coin in a small plastic pouch. © use top-quality packaging and place the coin in an acid-free holder. 5. The best way to find new/rare varieties for your shop is to (a) get a sharp knife (wink, wink) ( get coins with partial mint names and write “creative” descriptions © travel extensively and build contacts 6. Using “stock” images in auction listings is (a) Essential ( Acceptable © Unacceptable 7. An underweight coin is (a) AN EXTREMELY RARE *UNRECORDED* variety ( I never mention weights in my listings. © Most likely to be a fake 8. Catalog values are (a) sometimes useful for jacking up the price ( for nerds © mostly indicative and do not necessarily reflect market values 9. Would you knowingly sell a fake coin? (a) Absolutely! ( “I do not know what this is. No returns accepted.” © Never 10. What is your opinion on shill bidding? (a) I prefer the term “encouragement”. It helps weed out weak buyers. ( They can track it, can’t they? © It is a disgusting practice. I would never engage in it. SCORING For every (a), give yourself 10 POINTS For every ( , give yourself 5 POINTS For every ©, give yourself 0 POINTS RESULT 90-100 points: Congratulations! You are on your way to 5-star powerselling glory! 50-90 points: You are getting there. Keep it up! 5-45 points: Don't get your hopes too high… 0 points: We thank thee for taking this quiz, dear Jesus. edit - don't you hate it when when perfectly good text gets converted to emoticons David

Hey Peckris just PM'd you. Hey Mark well, the phone is an LG G3. Everything set to 'auto' as it's limited in settings. I think there are better phone cameras out there but what it does do well is take pictures when close up. The main thing, especially with this phone and its non-existent white balance adjustment, is having a desk lamp with a white bulb. Being close up comes with its disadvantages though. The light glare on coins for example and not being able to light the coin in full. The way to get around this seems to be having the camera and light sources way above the coins (10"+), directly pointing down, and potentially even put some paper in front of the lamps to diffuse the light a bit. But I've not had any success here as being so far away both the smartphone camera and my cheaper point and click don't capture the detail of the coin. A few have mentioned axial lighting and I can see how that would make sense, especially for reflective and proofs but again would need a camera that's capable of shooting at distance and that's where I think the phone cameras fall on their arses. Would love a camera with a nice macro lens and a fairly low minimum focusing distance but not cheap.