A question...
CommemKing
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Do the white, permanent, fingerprints that remain after a coin is dipped affect the grade? From my experience it is no. What's the rule here?
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I don't know what coin your dipping, but I would say yes it would affect the grade.
bob
If eye appeal is a factor. May not factor into grade, but may affect a potential buyer's offer.
Not sure on the grade?
As a buyer any grade on a newer slab is irrelevant anyway as once I see those prints the coin is dead to me.
My feeling is if the dipper didn't know how to hold the coin properly it probably wasn't neutralized the right way either.
My experience in seeing them, not dipping them.
I'm also not sure if it affects the grade, but it's a big negative for me for eye appeal !!!
It sort of does. It won't 70. But they won't knock it down from a 66 to a 65
Let me ask a question. Think of a perfect Silver Eagle. Now put a tiny white spot the size of this: * in the field. Does it affect the eye-appeal? Does the grade go down to a 69? YES, YES, and depends. If a grading service no longer guarantees coins that spot, let's make everyone happy and grade it a 70. Is the coin perfect? That depends on whether you see that one tiny spot.
Fingerprints are the same sort of thing. How large is the coin? Where is the print and how large is it? Is it one of those "white" ones or one of those darkly toned prints?
Not an easy answer after all and one made every day.
I think it limits the grade to around 66 (assuming the rest of the coin is ok). It's a big turn off for me, though, and I wouldn't buy it.
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I, unfortunately focus too much on the little things, obvious spots and fingerprints, I do not like
I felt the fingerprints on this otherwise excellent PCG 65RD Lincoln condemned it.
Many year ago (maybe 10), I sent it to Homerun Hall, asking for relief under their guarantee...which, at the time, was still fairly open-minded and liberal.
He replied with "concern" and later wrote to say he passed it around the grading room and the consensus was it still merited 65RD.
I hated it and sold it for a small loss.
Lance.
It would affect the marketability and more likely in the price it may commands.....
Personally I would not buy any coin with fingerprint ... I don't even like my own fingerprint on my stuffs let alone others
I agree with PF, that latent looks like a crime scene! Peace Roy
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Fingerprints spoil a coin for me....That is a personal opinion of course...and, unfortunately, the acids in fingerprints (which vary between individuals) will etch the surface after a short while and forever be a part of the coin. Cheers, RickO
I don't care for coins with fingerprints on them.
That's not true. I've got a BTW coin in a 67 holder with a palm print.