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Message:: [QUOTE="Midas, post: 48585, member: 2761"]Don't breathe...literally!  The smallest of your exhaled water vapor landing on a proof coin could "kill" the grade.  I hold my breath when I slide a proof coin into a soft flip (for grading), 2x2 Intercept Shield or whatever device you use to display and store your coins.  Actually I do that for all MS/PR coins...especially RED Lincolns.  I never touch the coin...I use an insert from a slab I may have broken out in the past to move the coin into proper placement.  Sometimes I use a Q-Tip to "push" the coin into the flip...only touching the edge.  But as I read here, that may not be a good idea. Like you...I can't tell the differance between a PR69DCAM and PR70DCAM.  I have seen both...side by side...and they got me?!?  Even for those PR65 +/- a few points, I have a difficult time...so I usually buy them already slabbed by either PCGS or NGC.  Sure I can see a carbon spot on a Lincoln versus one that is carbon-free, but one's version for a hair-line is not the same as the next person...if you can't even see the damn thing! Don't touch them with bare fingers...don't breathe on them and for God's sake, if you sneeze/cough on them by accident, you will hate yourself. Speaking from experience.  <img src="http://bestsmileys.com/panic/3.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]