Fingerprints or something else?

Placid

FC57Coins

sure looks like fingerprints!

Outhaul

Fingerprint:

Male
Between 43 and 47 YO
Approximately 6'1"
Black curly hair
Fair complexion
Walks with a limp
Farsighted
ACG grader

hughesm1

Definitely a fingerprint...over artificial toning! She needs a good dip. Do like the reverse die cracks though.

FC57Coins

whoa - artificial toning? - how do you figure that?

lordmarcovan

I dunno about the AT, but that's a fingerprint clear enough to get a positive ID on the slob who left it.

I'd say outhaul has a pretty close match.


Edit: perhaps the very fact that the toning would be disturbed by the fingerprint like that might mean it's AT. Dip it.

FC57Coins

A lot of times toning will come after the finger prints have already resided on the coin. If you look closely, you'll see that the print area has not toned, that could mean that the coin was handled long ago before it started toning, and those areas where the oils were most pronounced didn't tone.

Frank

lordmarcovan

Yeah, I guess you're right.

I still say it's ugly. DIP! DIP! DIP!

(The colors ain't unattractive- too bad the fingerprint kills 'em. Still, properly curated, I'm sure that's a nice coin. The reverse die cracks hughesm1 pointed out are rather interesting. I would have missed them.)

darktone

I have to agree with hughesm1 on this- finger prints and AT. mike

Placid

Thanks for the replies. The coin is a NGC 65 btw.

TheNumish

I have to say that toning is 100% original. I have an 1880-S I'll scan with the same problem that is 100% no question anybody can tell it's original toning. It'll be when I get home tonight. Yes, I'm reading this at work when I should be doing other things.

coincollector1989

FINGERPRINT

RotatedRainbows

Definitely a fingerprint on a natural end of roll toned coin, it appears there was little to no paper covering that area and someone who picked up the roll of dollars touched that spot possibly with their thumb.

Dog97

I wouldn't call that a toned coin I would call it a fingerprinted coin.
yucky yucky nasty
ps dip won't help it because if you dipped it you would see white print lines more clearly than you do now.

GaCoinGuy

OutHaul left out 1 tiny detail..............





Looks like the culprit had Taco Bell for lunch.............greasy burrito, at that.

Outhaul

Mmmmm...Burrito...

darktone

Placid- if PCGS slabbed it at 65 with a fingerprint that toning must be no question original. I take back my previous comment . I have not had good luck with getting good grades with coins with fingerprints although personally fingerprints on classic coins don't really bother me on nice looking coins like yours. mike

prooflike

looks like good tone and nasty fingerprints, too bad, would be a really nice coin without the prints.

Placid

I was thinking of a $50 max bid. It got bid up to $185