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1964 Penny Looking For A Grade?

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 Posted 03/13/2025  1:21 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ijn1944 to your friends list
It's very likely that the print has been on the coin's surfaces for some time. Acetone might work if the print was less than an hour or so old. Aggressive cleaning could remove the print, but then the coin would be irrevocably damaged.
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 Posted 03/13/2025  3:44 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Rubduck to your friends list
So the coin has no value at all with the print
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 Posted 03/13/2025  3:51 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Marve65 to your friends list
Big thumb print. You can only remove finger prints if they are newer. Once the oils from the print "eat" into the surface of the coin they are there to stay. I'd say just a face value coin - there were just too many made (2.6 Billion)
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 Posted 03/13/2025  4:04 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add BadThad to your friends list
AU, not worth any conservation attempt - a print like that cannot be removed anyway. Worth 1 cent.
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 Posted 03/13/2025  4:26 pm  Show Profile   Check Pacificoin's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add Pacificoin to your friends list
Spend it !
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 Posted 03/13/2025  11:25 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Scrappy to your friends list
I've had a couple different coins of that same age with this issue same exact date I mean. And it's definitely not a Palm print or thumbprint either because they're almost identical. Acetone bath has no affect. Has to have something to do with the minting process I think..
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 Posted 03/13/2025  11:29 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Marve65 to your friends list

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And it's definitely not a Palm print or thumbprint either because they're almost identical.

Start a post of your own and post pictures of the coins side by side for comparison.
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 Posted 03/14/2025  12:15 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Scrappy to your friends list
I don't believe I have em anymore I knew they weren't worth saving.. but if I do I will
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 Posted 03/14/2025  01:51 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Errers and Varietys to your friends list
Definitely a fingerprint, no doubt. Just a spender.
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 Posted 03/14/2025  09:18 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Rubduck to your friends list
Ok I thought that the condition it was in may have been worth couple of dollars
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If not a finger print explain to me then, just asking to learn, why is there no print on the reverse side? How can you pick it up with one finger and don't say they slide it off a table? Reason I say that is the age of the penny, someone didn't slide it off the table then never put it out in circulation untill recently? Just asking?
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 Posted 03/14/2025  10:04 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add panzaldi to your friends list
nothing can take those prints off. just 1C coin
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 Posted 03/14/2025  2:44 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add BadThad to your friends list
100% that's a fingerprint. Someone probably pressed into a Whitman folder many years ago.
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 Posted 03/14/2025  3:00 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add smat45 to your friends list

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Someone probably pressed into a Whitman folder many years ago.

using their big ol thumb...
I have plenty like that myself...
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 Posted 03/15/2025  7:43 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Tacc to your friends list
That there might be a Sasquatch Thumb Print.
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