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1917 Type I, Are these fingerprints?

DCAMDCAM Posts: 302 ✭✭✭
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Left side obverse and reverse.

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    mannie graymannie gray Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes.
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    jcpingjcping Posts: 2,649 ✭✭✭
    Absolutely yes image
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    mariner67mariner67 Posts: 2,746 ✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: jcping
    Absolutely yes image


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    TigersFan2TigersFan2 Posts: 1,442 ✭✭
    They aren't my fingerprints. I've never had a coin that nice in my grubby fingers.
    I love the 3 P's: PB&J, PBR and PCGS.
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    BoosibriBoosibri Posts: 12,686 ✭✭✭✭✭
    yes

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    TomBTomB Posts: 23,027 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes, both obverse and reverse.
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    BillJonesBillJones Posts: 35,834 ✭✭✭✭✭
    They are fingerprints, and to me it doesn't matter. I think that the coin is ugly with or without them.
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    pmacpmac Posts: 3,189 ✭✭✭
    They might almost be 100 year old prints too!
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    DollarAfterDollarDollarAfterDollar Posts: 3,217 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yup, and I'd bet the offender got what he/she deserved.













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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes... and likely nothing will remove them after all this time... surface is likely etched to some degree. Cheers, RickO
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    roadrunnerroadrunner Posts: 28,374 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes. And that's why I've often said some of the prettiest silver coins out there got their "start" with fingerprints or were at least accelerated by them. Yet the coin community often shuns any visible trace of them. If you look hard at many nicely toned silver type coins, there's often a slight trace of them somewhere on the coin.



    I wouldn't dip this coin nor would I shun it.
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    oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 13,085 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes...too bad.
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    2ltdjorn2ltdjorn Posts: 2,330 ✭✭✭✭
    I don't think it distracts. Nice coin
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    lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 45,044 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yep.



    I don't mind 'em much on the obverse- they kind of blend in with the texture of the wood paneling behind Liberty, a bit.



    As exhibited on the reverse, however, they would be a dealbreaker for me. Not a terrible looking coin, but I'd still pass.

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    coinkatcoinkat Posts: 24,437 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What RR wrote

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    MICHAELDIXONMICHAELDIXON Posts: 6,735 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Beautiful fingerprints!
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    johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 32,812 ✭✭✭✭✭
    no doubts.
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    luckybucksluckybucks Posts: 1,318 ✭✭✭
    Fingerprints, but with toning like that, who in the heck cares ???



    IMO that blue toning puts it over the edge, I love it !!!!!
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    ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: roadrunner
    Yes. And that's why I've often said some of the prettiest silver coins out there got their "start" with fingerprints or were at least accelerated by them. Yet the coin community often shuns any visible trace of them. If you look hard at many nicely toned silver type coins, there's often a slight trace of them somewhere on the coin.


    Roadrunner is correct. But I still hate fingerprints. image


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    thisnamztakenthisnamztaken Posts: 4,101 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What Bill Jones said. It's not attractive to me personally, but I realize that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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