Is textile toning on mint bag toned Morgans being mistaken for fingerprints??

fivecents

Some of the fingerprinted bag toned Morgans I see posted on this board look more like textile toning than fingerprints. Textile toning seems to have the same basic pattern as fingerprints on the bag toned Morgans. Has anyone else noticed this or is it just me?

Russ

I sometimes get confused about this myself. I have a Morgan right now that I thought had a light print, but a friend looked at it and said it was a little bit of textile. I think the difference is that a print will have somewhat curved lines while a textile pattern will tend to be more straight.

Russ, NCNE

Steve27

"I think the difference is that a print will have somewhat curved lines while a textile pattern will tend to be more straight."

I agree with Russ and thus conclude that what I've seen are indeed fingerprints.

jbsteven

I usually look for the "dots" from the textile patterns. When you have seen a few you would know what I mean. There is also a cris cross pattern to textile toning.

here is textile



I hope you can tell where the textile is on this one

fivecents

<< <i>I think the difference is that a print will have somewhat curved lines while a textile pattern will tend to be more straight. >>



I would disagree with that logic. Canvas bags can bend and have folds in them, so textile toning can be curved.
JB....That bottom dollar looks like it was up againist a seam of the bag. Too Cool!!

stman

<< <i> hope you can tell where the textile is on this one >>



I don't do this too often but

keets

Is textile toning on mint bag toned Morgans being mistaken for fingerprints??

i've seen many posted here where i thought the opposite, fingerprinting on toned Morgans mistaken for textile patterns.

al h.

eagle7

Im with Keets! What he said!

Shamika

I've also thought the same thing.

airplanenut

Here's a textile one

fivecents

<< <i>I usually look for the "dots" from the textile patterns. >>



jb...So do I, but Alot of the fingerprinted bag toned Morgans seem to have the same dot pattern as textile toning.

dragon

The canvas bag patterns and fingerprints are easily told apart, fingerprints on toned coins usually show up as black and have curved lines as well as tiny dots. Textile toning has a very distinct larger dot pattern as JB's examples clearly show.