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Bedrock of the Community
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it really looks like a finger print to me  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Looks like patterning from the fabric of a bag, I'm more inclined to go with a fingerprint. The lines curve. Since this coin is a proof, it's MUCH more susceptible to fingerprints. (At least it's not on the obverse...) |
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Pillar of the Community
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Really, no gloves?   |
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Bedrock of the Community
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I don't really see a problem here. Just dipping it in Jewlery Cleaners for a few days should fix that.   |
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Pillar of the Community
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It would be interesting to send it back to CAC and see if they would still consider it premium quality for the assigned grade. If they agree the fingerprint make it less than a PQ PR-67 coin that would suggest the print developed after the coin was slabbed. That in turn would implicate the handling process at PCGS.
I wonder if crime lab technicians could obtain a usable partial print from it, and whether that could be done without further damaging the coin?
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Bedrock of the Community
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That fingerprint was on there when the coin was slabbed, unless you think that coin did all that toning and turned those colors in the slab in the less than five years since it was put in that holder.
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Bedrock of the Community
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I said chances are, not that it was a fact that it happened at PCGS. There is always going to be a chance since they do not wear gloves
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Valued Member
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I, like others, find it surprising that they don't wear gloves. There must be a reasoning behind it. But what?
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Wearing gloves reduces tactile sensitivity. One is more likely to drop a coin when wearing gloves. Dropping it could be worse than touching it. As long as it is handled by the edge, gloves are unnecessary.
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Pillar of the Community
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Hmmmm... I don't wish to sound like I watch too much CSI, but how do you get a fingerprint on one side and not the other? Do you put stick-um on one finger only and press down on the reverse to pick it up? Wouldn't the obverse of this coin be more apt to show a fingerprint than the reverse? There are, after all, more wide open, smooth fields on the obverse that would seem more susceptible to fingerprints.
Just sayin...
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I only wear gloves when putting coins in my Dansco. I actually dropped a SLQ once wearing gloves and while trying to locate the coin, stepped on it :o
Talk about insult to injury! It was MS too.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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when trying to press it into something like an album you would take your thumb and press one side or another to get it to seat correctly. Just as a TPG employee would press on one side to get it to seat into the slab. That is how you get a finger print on one side and not another, you are pressing it against something else |
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Pillar of the Community
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a fingerprint AND a footprint... sounds like a bad day vermont... I've had a couple of those, one including a cat-print |
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Pillar of the Community
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Yeah I hate accidentally dropping collectible coins . I go into major panic alert when it happens  , hoping it didn't get a scratch or a ding |
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