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So Who was FIngerprinting the GSA Dollars?
Luxor
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I thought those handling and packaging the coins were all wearing cotton gloves?
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I like the label "GSA Treasure".
The Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin
Coins in Movies
Coins on Television
It should have been "GSA Hoard".
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"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
In the 19th Century coins were sometimes counted by hand using counting boards. Take a sturdy, shallow wooden box with an interior opening that would hold ten coins across times ten rows down, with the lip of the box ten coins high. Quickly fill it by hand and you have exactly 1,000 coins. Dump them into a bag and repeat. Some coins would get fingerprinted, others not.
For Halves you do it twice to get $1,000 bag. Quarters four times, etc.
If only there were away to match a fingerprint to a person!
Agreed
Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value. Zero. Voltaire. Ebay coinbowlllc
Not in CC in the 1880s, they weren't.
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
I'm assuming that never in history has an old fingerprint on a coin or mint related one been connected to a definite person.
Safe assumption, especially since fingerprints were first used for identification in the last 1889s.
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution