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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;huntsman53, post: 628154, member: 1242&quot;]Vess1,</p><p><br /></p><p>I understand your thinking but like Mark said, the print may not have been visible at the time the coin was submitted and graded! You can find thousands of examples of high grade coins in slabs that have nasty...highly visible fingerprints on them and the fingerprints were more than likely not visible when the coins were submitted and graded. To insure that a specific coin of your&#039;s does not have a fingerprint on it, then you have to know for sure that it was never touched by human fingers and take every precaution to insure that none get on the coin if you happen to show the coin to anyone. I have taken full rolls (in a plastic tube) of high grade...Gem BU (MS-65 to&nbsp; &nbsp; MS-68) untouched coins to Coin Shows to get either an opinion on the value or to sell them and came back with a roll of high grade...questionable Gem BU coins with many of them with fingerprints on them. Yes, some Coin Dealers and I mean some that deal only in high grade...Gem BU coins...use little to no care and take little to no extra precautions when they remove other folk&#039;s coins from a plastic tube to look at them! If they aren&#039;t buying them, then why should they care but they sometimes have an ulterior motive! I have jumped all over some of these same Coin Dealers for picking my&#039; coins up bare handed and with their&#039; thumb on the Obverse and several fingers on the Reverse, then reverse of this when they flip the coin over to inspect the Reverse. What gets me the worst about it, is the fact that after they have placed fingerprints on 60% or more of the coins in the roll, they have the gall to say they really aren&#039;t interested in purchasing them or give you a low value on the coins for some stupid reason, then go even futher to make some absurd offer on them.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Frank[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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