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CommemKingCommemKing Posts: 2,202 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Here is an auction for a beautiful New Rochelle comnem with all the original paperwork and cardboard holder. But the guy takes the coin out of the holder and snaps a picture with his oily hand holding the coin on both the obverse and reverse no doubt leaving prints on the coin.

The price looks good if it stays close the opening bid, but that coin is going to have some prints on it some day. This stuff annoys the hell out of me.

Link to ebay auction.

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    oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 13,311 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I cannot see your link at work, but I have seen several images where the seller is "pawing" at the coin in their images, which is very distracting and sometime, sickening. Some people.
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    WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 10,417 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes, it's quite disturbing.

    Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍

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    AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 25,054 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Doesn't bother me at all. I always do a acetone rinse on all coins I've received. This

    eliminates those dreaded fingerprint and oily hands problems from previous owners.



    At least it has worked for me, so far.



    bobimage



    ps: Is this an example of buy the coin not the holder??? (pun intended)
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    WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 10,417 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: AUandAG ps: Is this an example of buy the coin not the holder??? (pun intended)




    Good one, Bob!! image



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    SeattleSlammerSeattleSlammer Posts: 10,129 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That was a good pun.

    Yes, it bugs me, too.

    That looks like a lovely original piece....now likely graced with future prints. Oh well.
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    LanceNewmanOCCLanceNewmanOCC Posts: 19,999 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    i'm glad you linked that item.



    explains the unusual toning i see on these from time-to-time.

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    drwstr123drwstr123 Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If the coin isn't mine, I don't care.
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    Wabbit2313Wabbit2313 Posts: 7,268 ✭✭✭✭✭


    Acetone will fix it right up. The seller has sold other graded Commems, making me very suspicious of the quality of those that are being sold as original. Why wouldn't he at least try for a great grade fist, and if they didn't, simply crack out and sell like this?
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    ashelandasheland Posts: 24,548 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Acetone will fix that.

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    ashelandasheland Posts: 24,548 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes, it bothers me too.

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    johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 34,764 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: drwstr123
    If the coin isn't mine, I don't care.


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    DollarAfterDollarDollarAfterDollar Posts: 3,217 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Knowing that the coin's been finger marked, acetone will get the oils off unless they've been drying a very long time. It should clean up. That wouldn't prevent me from buying if I were in the market.



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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I always do a acetone rinse on all coins I've received




    Actually, this will only help when done promptly.... the acids in skin oils will etch the surface of a coin making the print virtually permanent. Cheers, RickO

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