Ever Get Your Coin Back From TPG With Thumbprints On It... Here Is One

With completely different lighting. Makes it impossible to make a valid comparison.



But we expect the TPG to just take OUR word for it. Double standard? If we expect them to take our word for things, then it is only right that we take their word.

Ouch. That looks painful.

I hate it that this happened to you most valuable coin.

Well I guess that sort of makes sense.

I am blaming nobody in particular. As far as I know, the coin shop employee did it, because I saw him do it to another coin I had handed over. All I am saying is better safe than sorry by sending it in yourself... that way you know the t.p.g. did it, but I am pretty sure still nothing can be proven. Sending it in yourself just reduces the chances of fingerprints is my point. At one point, I was getting coin after coin that was incompetently by a seller, which happens, in my experiences about 1 in 5 times. In one case, a 1 oz gold coin not only escaped its capsule, but managed to rub against a metal ring that was also in the box, completely ruining and scratching the coin. from then on, I write a note to the seller (if the coin is in a capsule) to please run some tape around the capsule. Happily, most sellers are competent and would be as horrified as I was, while just a few seem to have the attitude "heck, it ain't my coin anymore". the seller who had sent me the rubbed coin did reimburse me somewhat whithout me asking him to, so he was an honorable seller, but in the end it wrecked the integrity of the set to the tune of about a thousand dollars (this was a set of 5 1 oz gold coins in individual capsules, the ring that escaped and rubbed against the ring was a lord of the rings set that included "the one ring"), so it was a freak accident. the deal is this... if a seller sees that there is room inside the coin's holder or box, and there is enough room for the capsule to break loose from its indentation, the box should be packed tightly enough so that the capsule cannot escape. this is just common sense, but it has happened to me 3 times, the other two times there were still scratches but the one that had the ring in it almost looked like it had been put in a dryer for 30 seconds. live and learn. as I said tho, most sellers are very careful about it, so I am not painting them all with the same brush, as I sell coins from time to time myself. it is just frustrating that damage can be prevented by less than a penny's worth of crumpled paper or tape.

Almost no one does. Graders don't, dealers don't, the overwhelming majority of collectors don't. They're simply unnecessary when you hold a coin by the rim. Not to mention with the exception of ultra moderns the vast majority of coins have been handled by bare human hands many times already.

I agree. Gloves make me more likely to drop a coin. The only time I ever used them was when looking through rolled coins, but that was more for my benefit than that of the coins.

Kind of all forgetting that those TPG services are just people. And people are rather not perfect you know. I've seen so called experts at coin shows and in coin stores handle coins as if they were just coins, not a collectors item. Even that show on TV for coins there is this guy that claims to be an expert for many years handling coins with his bare hands. He clanks slabs together all the time too. At one coin store I've been to I actually walked out when the person waiting on me handled the coins I wanted with bare hands. People get hired in places that have no or little idea of what they are doing. Ever try calling the HP help line?