Just for fun with an educational twist. Don't touch your coins always handle from the edge. What is the best way to handle a coin But what if you accidently do touch the coin. What should you do? Is there any accepted treatment that might be used on a raw coin from unknown origins that could be used to stop a fingerprint that you can't see from appearing later? PCGS 64BN from Charmy.
Acetone. If you had accidentally touched a coin, acetone can remove your fingerprint oils. It may also work on very fresh fingerprints, but for older fingerprints it won't do much good. So the effectiveness of the acetone depends on the age of the fingerprint.
Ouch! That shouldn't have been touched. Now I know that toning can easily be ruined, and fingerprints can deduct grades very easily.
Unfortunately, most fingerprints are not removed before they are seen, and that is the problem, because once you see it, it is etched metal and not removable without altering the surface. Although some may disagree, any purchased coins I receive are routinely rinsed with acetone in case the previous owner did leave a residue. Jim
The fingerprint on a coin can lower the value of the coin, but if you have access to the fbi fingerprint database, your figerprinted coin might gain a provenance that will make the value zoom, frinstance, if wheatie eaters coin proved to have John Dillingers print on it, it might be worth 10-20 times greysheet prices.
Man I thought searching for errors could be tedious at times but could you imagine trying to pull finger prints too? lol.
uh yeah.... thats why I posted this thread. This cent is PCGS slabbed cent and it has to one of the most dramatic I have, no !it is the most dramatic certainly in contrasting color. and no, no juicing /white balanced - straight from the camera.... no post edit other than the crop. That is good... really good! I don't think there are enough markers on that print to positively ID. So now all I need to do is find coin collecting public service people with access to AFIS and hope the previous person who left their mark on the coin was a felon. Cool idea though.
