Just a Friendly Reminder to Wash Your Hands...

BustHalfBrian

Especially if you work at The Mint!

AmazonX

Wow, that's a perfect print. Bet you can unlock that mint employee's cellphone with it.

TwoSides2aCoin

There' enough DNA on that one to know who did it.

cmerlo1

I've seen a few 1971-S Blue Ikes in the mint packaging with fingerprints on them, although with those I'm not surprised as I remember reading somewhere that the mint outsourced the packaging for the 1971 coins.

LanLord

Is that on the coin or the packaging?

that is amazingly clear.

lkeigwin

Looks intentional.

Lance.

asheland

That's nuts!

ElKevvo

Late 70's autos were not the only things made in the US with quality control issues! I agree with Lanlord...looks to be intentional as it is a very square to the coin, sharp, un smudged print.



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Shamika

Yea, that looks intentional.

crazyhounddog

Originally posted by: AmazonX
Wow, that's a perfect print. Bet you can unlock that mint employee's cellphone with it.

steveben

cool!

coindeuce

Originally posted by: AmazonX

Wow, that's a perfect print. Bet you can unlock that mint employee's cellphone with it.

A Mint employee of 1978 is probably pushing up daisies at present.

TwoSides2aCoin

Originally posted by: coindeuce

Originally posted by: AmazonX
Wow, that's a perfect print. Bet you can unlock that mint employee's cellphone with it.

A Mint employee of 1978 is probably pushing up daisies at present.

Are mint employee's fingerprints on file ? (rhetorical question)

coindeuce

Originally posted by: TwoSides2aCoin

Originally posted by: coindeuce

Originally posted by: AmazonX

Wow, that's a perfect print. Bet you can unlock that mint employee's cellphone with it.

A Mint employee of 1978 is probably pushing up daisies at present.

Are mint employee's fingerprints on file ? (rhetorical question)

Not rhetorical at all. Government employees with the security clearance required to work in a Mint facility will definitely have their fingerprints on file. And only the best of the best of hackers would have any chance at using a photograph of a fingerprint with the app. on a smart phone that uses fingerprints rather than text to unlock a secured device. Somebody has been watching too much Hollywood fiction.

TwoSides2aCoin

The rhetoric is the ONLINE print at the beginning of the thread. See the first post, for details. If I were to answer my own question, I'd answer it by saying : " This guy's prints are on file. Just look at Ike " As it were.

SaorAlba

It would have real cool factor if you could access the fingerprint files of employees working at the Philly mint during that time and tie it to a particular worker and have it attributed as such.



It would be hilarious if the worker is still around if they came forward and said "Yup, those are my pawprints on that there coin"

joeykoins

Cool! That there is called the "Superbird Print". Does anyone notice the "s" inside the print?

ricko

If that is on the coin, as it appears, it is there forever... it will be etched by now. Cheers, RickO

BustHalfBrian

Originally posted by: LanLord
Is that on the coin or the packaging?
that is amazingly clear.

It is on the coin. There were a couple of other 1978 mint sets in this group containing coins with similar fingerprints, however the most pronounced was on this Ike.

Walkerfan

YIKES!!



Major, ugly, full print.



An indelible impression on an otherwise nice coin.

TigersFan2

Originally posted by: SaorAlba
It would have real cool factor if you could access the fingerprint files of employees working at the Philly mint during that time and tie it to a particular worker and have it attributed as such.

It would be hilarious if the worker is still around if they came forward and said "Yup, those are my pawprints on that there coin"

I'd like to hear the recording of the phone call of someone calling PCGS to ask if the slab label can be attributed with the person's name of the finger print.