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<p>[QUOTE="Insider, post: 2380707, member: 24314"][USER=69760]@iPen[/USER]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is another tip. Use a scissors on the bottom of the flip.</p><p><br /></p><p>Try this experiment to put your mind to rest...try scratching a coin with a plastic flip. I just took a BU Presidential dollar and put the pointed end of a hard flip and pushed the point back and forth several times until I pushed so hard that the point bent. No damage to the coin's surface at 15X.</p><p><br /></p><p>This BS about slide marks on coins from coin folders is 99% nonsense. We have tried this in seminars. Will it ever happen sooner or later - well yes as anything is possible. Perhaps some grit settles out of the air or off a hand and gets trapped on the inside of the slide. Perhaps a bit of hard (pressed in as made) included debris pushed out of the cheap cardboard. I've only seen it happen ONCE leaving a very tiny, little hairline.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Insider, post: 2380707, member: 24314"][USER=69760]@iPen[/USER] Here is another tip. Use a scissors on the bottom of the flip. Try this experiment to put your mind to rest...try scratching a coin with a plastic flip. I just took a BU Presidential dollar and put the pointed end of a hard flip and pushed the point back and forth several times until I pushed so hard that the point bent. No damage to the coin's surface at 15X. This BS about slide marks on coins from coin folders is 99% nonsense. We have tried this in seminars. Will it ever happen sooner or later - well yes as anything is possible. Perhaps some grit settles out of the air or off a hand and gets trapped on the inside of the slide. Perhaps a bit of hard (pressed in as made) included debris pushed out of the cheap cardboard. I've only seen it happen ONCE leaving a very tiny, little hairline.[/QUOTE]
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