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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ranchhand, post: 158190, member: 2622&quot;]&quot;thumbing&quot; a coin is to rub the coin with your fingers (usually the thumb, hence the term) the oils on your skin can hide hairlines to the untrained eye, the coin will darken over time in the area that have been thumbed. Its a scamers way to temporarily make a coin look higher grade then it is, by the time the unsuspecting purchasers discovers the problem the thumber is long gone...</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.coin-gallery.com/cgglossary.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coin-gallery.com/cgglossary.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.coin-gallery.com/cgglossary.htm</a></p><p>and:</p><p><a href="http://en.mimi.hu/numismatic/thumbing.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.mimi.hu/numismatic/thumbing.html" rel="nofollow">http://en.mimi.hu/numismatic/thumbing.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>thumbing is most often found on Morgan dollars.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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