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How not to handle coins

cho10cho10 Posts: 391
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check the pictures of this DMPL coin between the fingertips of the seller.

link to Ebay auction

I don't recommend treating any coin this way.
Then people wonder how years later the sign of a finger print shows up on the surface of a coin.
cho10

Collecting since the 1980's
Morgan Dollars Circ. Strikes
- Basic Set - Varieties - Prooflike Basic Set - Date Set
- Carson City - Early S Mint Short Set - Mintmark Type Set
Morgan Dollars Proof
- Basic Set - Varieties
Peace Circ.

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  • CoxeCoxe Posts: 11,139 ✭
    OY GEVALT!
    Select Rarities -- DMPLs and VAMs
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  • bhartman35bhartman35 Posts: 1,398
    Looks like a misguided attempt to show the mirror surfaces. Aside from the poor handling, it doesn't look proof anything to me. It looks dipped and shiny, but that's all. I don't see any frosted surfaces, and you can't tell from the pics how much detail the coin retains.
    If you haven't noticed, I'm single and miserable and I've got four albums of bitching about it that I would offer as proof.

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  • SciotoScioto Posts: 955 ✭
    I make it a point to chastise bank tellers, fast food cashiers and anyone else who gives me change if they hand me coins any way but by holding the edges. image
    GO AHEAD! I DOUBLE-DOG DARE YOU TO RATE ME A 1!
  • 1921obsession1921obsession Posts: 559 ✭
    No big thing. If he gets finger oil on it, he'll just polish it again. image
    Proudly upholding derelict standards for five decades.
  • bhartman35bhartman35 Posts: 1,398


    << <i>I make it a point to chastise bank tellers, fast food cashiers and anyone else who gives me change if they hand me coins any way but by holding the edges. image >>



    They must love you at McDonald's. image
    If you haven't noticed, I'm single and miserable and I've got four albums of bitching about it that I would offer as proof.

    -- Adam Duritz, of Counting Crows


    My Ebay Auctions
    image
  • ar18ar18 Posts: 1,122
    polished polished polished
  • SciotoScioto Posts: 955 ✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I make it a point to chastise bank tellers, fast food cashiers and anyone else who gives me change if they hand me coins any way but by holding the edges. image >>



    They must love you at McDonald's. image >>



    I only use the drive-thru (to make a quick getaway).
    GO AHEAD! I DOUBLE-DOG DARE YOU TO RATE ME A 1!

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