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Gee, I wonder how the fingerprint got on this coin?

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  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
    It's been cleaned so harshly you don't even notice the print!!!image
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • Sphinx357Sphinx357 Posts: 1,279
    He should know better than to hold a coin like that, especially that coin. Ofcourse it doesn't matter though seeing that he cleaned it with an SOS pad.
  • nepbrs44nepbrs44 Posts: 600 ✭✭
    What a waste!............Cleaned coin is an understatement image
    Bill.

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  • fcloudfcloud Posts: 12,133 ✭✭✭✭
    It looks so clean, that even time probably won't help that thing.

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  • DHeathDHeath Posts: 8,472 ✭✭✭
    The prints aren't enough to hide the extra metal pushed up on the right side stars by the whizzing.image
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  • MFHMFH Posts: 11,720 ✭✭✭✭
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  • GeminiGemini Posts: 3,085 ✭
    Maybe she is growing lighter naturally or is it just a pigment of my imagination...image
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  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭


    << <i>The prints aren't enough to hide the extra metal pushed up on the right side stars by the whizzing >>


    ??? What are you talking about? I don't see any metal pushed up from whizzing. Just your typical lateer state drawing of the stars to the denticals. Or have I taken you seriously when you didn't mean it?
  • MarkMark Posts: 3,536 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I concur with Conder about the metal flow of the stars. In truth, I was looking at the picture and thinking about the fact that the die must have been getting old when that particular coin was struck. Now, as to whether the coin was whizzed or not, I don't know but I believe the metal flow from the stars to the denticles is the normal state of an older die.

    Mark
    Mark


  • DHeathDHeath Posts: 8,472 ✭✭✭
    Perhaps it is die abrasion, but I see what looks like a brush mark on the lowest star, which is why I supposed whizzing. It could indeed be just a contact mark, so I'll defer to your experience.

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  • cdwegnercdwegner Posts: 449 ✭
    Every once in awhile, someone mentions how some of the early US coins may have been handled by famous people (Washington, etc...), I wonder if any of those coins have famous fingerprints on them... haha

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  • coinlieutenantcoinlieutenant Posts: 9,310 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Someone mentioned something about handling the coin like that. If that were an original, uncleaned coin, handling like that briefly will do no damage do it...
    I'm not talking about thumbing it or rubbing it but just holding it is fine...

    AU+ to UNC is a different story, but an original coin would have so much oxidation built up that oils would have little to no affect ...

    John

    siliconvalleycoins.com

  • VarlisVarlis Posts: 505 ✭✭✭
    So how much is it?
  • relayerrelayer Posts: 10,570 ✭


    << <i>So how much is it? >>



    What ever you want to pay for it. It's listed here along with some other photos.

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  • VarlisVarlis Posts: 505 ✭✭✭
    $83.00 and counting. Holy rip-off, Batman!image

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