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OAKSTAR
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This one was graded but I can't find the picture of the slab. I forget what the grade was.

Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )

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  • OAKSTAR
    OAKSTAR Posts: 8,770 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 21, 2024 6:36PM
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    Hey- I think I may have posted something like this once before. If I did, disregard.

    Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )

  • Walkerguy21D
    Walkerguy21D Posts: 12,165 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Assume that’s a trace of a fingerprint next to the date.
    It was recently graded PF 65 by PCGS.

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  • Kurisu
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    Not graded... An original Cheerios cent.
    I wonder if it's from someone on the marketing team who sat there and packaged these for days...

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  • OAKSTAR
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    @Kurisu said:
    Not graded... An original Cheerios cent.
    I wonder if it's from someone on the marketing team who sat there and packaged these for days...

    I remember seeing fingerprints on sealed cellophane mint sets over the years. If it were mint employees assembling those sets, they could easily be identified if anyone really cared. 🤣 😂

    Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )

  • PerryHall
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    I remember reading a post some time ago by one of the forum members who got a tour of the mint. I believe it was CaptHenway. He said he saw a woman assembling proof sets while eating greasy salty potato chips. :#

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  • OAKSTAR
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    @PerryHall said:
    I remember reading a post some time ago by one of the forum members who got a tour of the mint. I believe it was CaptHenway. He said he saw a woman assembling proof sets while eating greasy salty potato chips. :#

    I thought Tom said fried chicken. 🤣 😂

    Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )

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  • messydesk
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    I don't have pictures handy, but GSA Morgans show up with strong prints on them from time to time. If these coins were indeed only ever handled with gloved hands by the GSA during the sales, then these prints date back to when the coins were made, which was before fingerprints were used for identification in the US.

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  • hfjacinto
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    I purchased this one a while ago for the slabbed 7070. I ended up getting a different one and put this one away and forgot about it. A few months ago I pulled it out and it now has a fingerprint????

    Its not worth much and it was super cheap so I don't really care but man was I annoyed.

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  • OAKSTAR
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    @messydesk said:
    I don't have pictures handy, but GSA Morgans show up with strong prints on them from time to time. If these coins were indeed only ever handled with gloved hands by the GSA during the sales, then these prints date back to when the coins were made, which was before fingerprints were used for identification in the US.

    Excellent point! That was probably before the numismatic community knew fingerprint oil on coins could etch themselves into the coins surface, appearing years later as a permanent fingerprint.

    Also makes you wonder if prints have ever been lifted off coins by police or FBI at a crime scene for evidence.

    Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )

  • messydesk
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    @OAKSTAR said:

    @messydesk said:
    I don't have pictures handy, but GSA Morgans show up with strong prints on them from time to time. If these coins were indeed only ever handled with gloved hands by the GSA during the sales, then these prints date back to when the coins were made, which was before fingerprints were used for identification in the US.

    Excellent point! That was probably before the numismatic community knew fingerprint oil on coins could etch themselves into the coins surface, appearing years later as a permanent fingerprint.

    With respect to the coins themselves, people working at the mint in the 1880s weren't part of the numismatic community. They were factory workers.

    John
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  • PerryHall
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    @messydesk said:

    @OAKSTAR said:

    @messydesk said:
    I don't have pictures handy, but GSA Morgans show up with strong prints on them from time to time. If these coins were indeed only ever handled with gloved hands by the GSA during the sales, then these prints date back to when the coins were made, which was before fingerprints were used for identification in the US.

    Excellent point! That was probably before the numismatic community knew fingerprint oil on coins could etch themselves into the coins surface, appearing years later as a permanent fingerprint.

    With respect to the coins themselves, people working at the mint in the 1880s weren't part of the numismatic community. They were factory workers.

    I don't see that it's much different today.

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  • OAKSTAR
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    @messydesk said:

    @OAKSTAR said:

    @messydesk said:
    I don't have pictures handy, but GSA Morgans show up with strong prints on them from time to time. If these coins were indeed only ever handled with gloved hands by the GSA during the sales, then these prints date back to when the coins were made, which was before fingerprints were used for identification in the US.

    Excellent point! That was probably before the numismatic community knew fingerprint oil on coins could etch themselves into the coins surface, appearing years later as a permanent fingerprint.

    With respect to the coins themselves, people working at the mint in the 1880s weren't part of the numismatic community. They were factory workers.

    Although they were factory workers, were they employed by the gov't as mint employees?

    Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )

  • PerryHall
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    @OAKSTAR said:

    @messydesk said:

    @OAKSTAR said:

    @messydesk said:
    I don't have pictures handy, but GSA Morgans show up with strong prints on them from time to time. If these coins were indeed only ever handled with gloved hands by the GSA during the sales, then these prints date back to when the coins were made, which was before fingerprints were used for identification in the US.

    Excellent point! That was probably before the numismatic community knew fingerprint oil on coins could etch themselves into the coins surface, appearing years later as a permanent fingerprint.

    With respect to the coins themselves, people working at the mint in the 1880s weren't part of the numismatic community. They were factory workers.

    Although they were factory workers, were they employed by the gov't as mint employees?

    The mint is a factory that manufactures coins.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • OAKSTAR
    OAKSTAR Posts: 8,770 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @PerryHall said:

    @OAKSTAR said:

    @messydesk said:

    @OAKSTAR said:

    @messydesk said:
    I don't have pictures handy, but GSA Morgans show up with strong prints on them from time to time. If these coins were indeed only ever handled with gloved hands by the GSA during the sales, then these prints date back to when the coins were made, which was before fingerprints were used for identification in the US.

    Excellent point! That was probably before the numismatic community knew fingerprint oil on coins could etch themselves into the coins surface, appearing years later as a permanent fingerprint.

    With respect to the coins themselves, people working at the mint in the 1880s weren't part of the numismatic community. They were factory workers.

    Although they were factory workers, were they employed by the gov't as mint employees?

    The mint is a factory that manufactures coins.

    Which is owned by the gov't. So the factory workers are a part of the numismatic community if they are manufacturing coins.

    Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )

  • OAKSTAR
    OAKSTAR Posts: 8,770 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 29, 2024 3:20PM
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    So maybe numismatic is just he study of coins, not the manufacturing of them.

    Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )

  • Catbert
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    I work in a hospital, but I'm not a doctor. ;):D

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  • OAKSTAR
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    @Catbert said:
    I work in a hospital, but I'm not a doctor. ;):D

    I'm thinking if you work in a hospital, you might not be directly but you're a part of the medical community.

    Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )

  • hummingbird_coins
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    @Cladiator said:
    One of the very few coins in my meager collection that will not change ownership until I've left this world.

    That describes the vast majority of my coins :#

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