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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1683225, member: 112&quot;]Lot&#039;s folks think the same way, but they are all wrong. There is no material or fabric that is soft enough to not hairline a coin. There are millions of coins, Proof and business strikes alike, that have wipe marks from somebody wiping the coin with a soft material like cotton. And it doesn&#039;t have to be dirty or have grit on it to hairline the coin. Cotton can and will hairline a coin all by itself.</p><p><br /></p><p>It has nothing to do with the hardness of the materials. It has to do with luster. Luster is very fragile, extremely fragile. Your finger, a Q-tip, cotton cloth, any cloth, all of these things will leave marks in luster. Luster is a series of microscopic little ridges topped by molecule sized particles that can be disturbed, scratched, broken, worn away, by anything that touches them.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is nothing that you can use to touch the surface of a coin that will not leave traces of that touch behind - nothing ![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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