Post Your Graded Coins With Fingerprints

OAKSTAR

This one was graded but I can't find the picture of the slab. I forget what the grade was.

OAKSTAR

Hey- I think I may have posted something like this once before. If I did, disregard.

Manifest_Destiny

Walkerguy21D

Assume that’s a trace of a fingerprint next to the date.
It was recently graded PF 65 by PCGS.

gtstang

robec

Saam

OAKSTAR

@gtstang - Fingerprints on the coin and the slab! You're the winner!! 🤣 😂 👍

Kurisu

Not graded... An original Cheerios cent.
I wonder if it's from someone on the marketing team who sat there and packaged these for days...

breakdown

Used to own this one. Great coin but there is a print near star 13.

OAKSTAR

@Kurisu said:
Not graded... An original Cheerios cent.
I wonder if it's from someone on the marketing team who sat there and packaged these for days...

I remember seeing fingerprints on sealed cellophane mint sets over the years. If it were mint employees assembling those sets, they could easily be identified if anyone really cared. 🤣 😂

PerryHall

I remember reading a post some time ago by one of the forum members who got a tour of the mint. I believe it was CaptHenway. He said he saw a woman assembling proof sets while eating greasy salty potato chips.

renomedphys

I generally avoid coins with fingerprints. This one though…

PCGS AU55 OGH

Copperindian

This one’s a beauty & tied for top pop, fingerprint & all. Also a straight cross from NGC to PCGS:

S-15 variety; MS66

Goldbully

OAKSTAR

@PerryHall said:
I remember reading a post some time ago by one of the forum members who got a tour of the mint. I believe it was CaptHenway. He said he saw a woman assembling proof sets while eating greasy salty potato chips.

I thought Tom said fried chicken. 🤣 😂

TPRC

For some reason, modest prints never bothered me much. Not so, however, for the rest of the collector community. I even see them as a mark of originality, even if also a mark of mishandling. I recently sold this toned MS 65 coin on Great Collections with very mild prints across the cheek for what I consider under market.

LeeBone

messydesk

I don't have pictures handy, but GSA Morgans show up with strong prints on them from time to time. If these coins were indeed only ever handled with gloved hands by the GSA during the sales, then these prints date back to when the coins were made, which was before fingerprints were used for identification in the US.

CommemDude

hfjacinto

I purchased this one a while ago for the slabbed 7070. I ended up getting a different one and put this one away and forgot about it. A few months ago I pulled it out and it now has a fingerprint????

Its not worth much and it was super cheap so I don't really care but man was I annoyed.

Barberian

OAKSTAR

@messydesk said:
I don't have pictures handy, but GSA Morgans show up with strong prints on them from time to time. If these coins were indeed only ever handled with gloved hands by the GSA during the sales, then these prints date back to when the coins were made, which was before fingerprints were used for identification in the US.

Excellent point! That was probably before the numismatic community knew fingerprint oil on coins could etch themselves into the coins surface, appearing years later as a permanent fingerprint.

Also makes you wonder if prints have ever been lifted off coins by police or FBI at a crime scene for evidence.

messydesk

@OAKSTAR said:

@messydesk said:
I don't have pictures handy, but GSA Morgans show up with strong prints on them from time to time. If these coins were indeed only ever handled with gloved hands by the GSA during the sales, then these prints date back to when the coins were made, which was before fingerprints were used for identification in the US.

Excellent point! That was probably before the numismatic community knew fingerprint oil on coins could etch themselves into the coins surface, appearing years later as a permanent fingerprint.

With respect to the coins themselves, people working at the mint in the 1880s weren't part of the numismatic community. They were factory workers.

PerryHall

@messydesk said:

@OAKSTAR said:

@messydesk said:
I don't have pictures handy, but GSA Morgans show up with strong prints on them from time to time. If these coins were indeed only ever handled with gloved hands by the GSA during the sales, then these prints date back to when the coins were made, which was before fingerprints were used for identification in the US.

Excellent point! That was probably before the numismatic community knew fingerprint oil on coins could etch themselves into the coins surface, appearing years later as a permanent fingerprint.

With respect to the coins themselves, people working at the mint in the 1880s weren't part of the numismatic community. They were factory workers.

I don't see that it's much different today.

OAKSTAR

@messydesk said:

@OAKSTAR said:

@messydesk said:
I don't have pictures handy, but GSA Morgans show up with strong prints on them from time to time. If these coins were indeed only ever handled with gloved hands by the GSA during the sales, then these prints date back to when the coins were made, which was before fingerprints were used for identification in the US.

Excellent point! That was probably before the numismatic community knew fingerprint oil on coins could etch themselves into the coins surface, appearing years later as a permanent fingerprint.

With respect to the coins themselves, people working at the mint in the 1880s weren't part of the numismatic community. They were factory workers.

Although they were factory workers, were they employed by the gov't as mint employees?

PerryHall

@OAKSTAR said:

@messydesk said:

@OAKSTAR said:

@messydesk said:
I don't have pictures handy, but GSA Morgans show up with strong prints on them from time to time. If these coins were indeed only ever handled with gloved hands by the GSA during the sales, then these prints date back to when the coins were made, which was before fingerprints were used for identification in the US.

Excellent point! That was probably before the numismatic community knew fingerprint oil on coins could etch themselves into the coins surface, appearing years later as a permanent fingerprint.

With respect to the coins themselves, people working at the mint in the 1880s weren't part of the numismatic community. They were factory workers.

Although they were factory workers, were they employed by the gov't as mint employees?

The mint is a factory that manufactures coins.

OAKSTAR

@PerryHall said:

@OAKSTAR said:

@messydesk said:

@OAKSTAR said:

@messydesk said:
I don't have pictures handy, but GSA Morgans show up with strong prints on them from time to time. If these coins were indeed only ever handled with gloved hands by the GSA during the sales, then these prints date back to when the coins were made, which was before fingerprints were used for identification in the US.

Excellent point! That was probably before the numismatic community knew fingerprint oil on coins could etch themselves into the coins surface, appearing years later as a permanent fingerprint.

With respect to the coins themselves, people working at the mint in the 1880s weren't part of the numismatic community. They were factory workers.

Although they were factory workers, were they employed by the gov't as mint employees?

The mint is a factory that manufactures coins.

Which is owned by the gov't. So the factory workers are a part of the numismatic community if they are manufacturing coins.

OAKSTAR

So maybe numismatic is just he study of coins, not the manufacturing of them.

Catbert

I work in a hospital, but I'm not a doctor.

OAKSTAR

@Catbert said:
I work in a hospital, but I'm not a doctor.

I'm thinking if you work in a hospital, you might not be directly but you're a part of the medical community.

Cladiator

One of the very few coins in my meager collection that will not change ownership until I've left this world.

hummingbird_coins

@Cladiator said:
One of the very few coins in my meager collection that will not change ownership until I've left this world.

That describes the vast majority of my coins