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Message:: [QUOTE="TubeRider, post: 2296072, member: 76481"]Back to the Unc quarters. I pulled a few out with REALLY clean cheeks and slid them in and out of a new plastic flip a couple times and sure enough it left hairlines across the cheek. So today I was in a coin shop looking for some nice raw MS Mercs for my next grading set. The nicest Winged Liberty in the shop the owner had graded himself as MS66 FBL. Coin was gorgeous!  I figured if I couldn't 66 the coin in my set I would at least be able to 5 it. But as I studied the coin, ever so slight across the cheek was the exact same hairlines I was getting with my flip experiments, not a lot, maybe five or six.  I spent a long time making sure the hairlines were on the coin and not the 2x2. I then asked the owner about it and after looking at the coin for some time, and even lightly tapping the coin on the counter hoping the lines in question were on the mylar and not the coin, he finally shook his head as he came to the same conclusion.  I know and trust the owner and I don't believe for a second that he previously knew the hairlines were there.  A month ago I would have bought that coin.  So as stated by others years ago in this thread, it doesn't matter how the hairlines got there, cabinet, stacking or album friction, the fact is, they are there![/QUOTE]