Question about impact of fingerprint on PCGS coin's grade and submitting for regrade

I have collected coins on and off for 45 years. Fingerprinting does not take that long to show up and like I said the first rule of coin collecting is hold it by the edge!

 

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They do hold it by the edges. It's a freak accident when they do it, it's highly unlikely multiple coins of yours were from them. Get a fresh coin from the bank and touch it with washed hands there isn't a print visible for a long long time. IF they had actually done it the print almost certainly wouldn't have become visible in the time they had it before you got it back.

There's really no way to know when or were it happened though the grade and type of coin could give a little better idea but even with that it's just a guess. Considering the number of coins they handle it's very rare when it's their fault assuming we are talking about the legitimate ones.

 

Well as far as I am concerned a touched (fingerprinted) coin is as bad as circulated and it is a waste if it truly is a nice uncirculated coin.

And they graded them highly and I still don't care, they are not as I sent them.

 

Would you mind telling us the rest of the story? Who graded them, type of coins and how many had fingerprints.

 

PCGS. Eisenhower's out of the original plastic from the mint. 3 out of 5.

 

Highly highly unlikely they got 3 out of 5. What Ike's specifically in what packaging from the mint?

By the way things have and do come from the mint with finger prints on them in the mint cello as well

 

I said 3 and that's what they did. The U.S. Mint does not fingerprint coins. I met Mr. Frank Gasparro and went into a mint and it is practically spotless. The packaging was plastic cellophane.

 

The US Mint does not even package the coins themselves anymore. They are shipped to a 3rd party, Coin Wrap Inc, where they are packaged for consumers.

 

There are coins that are literally in the cello that hasn’t been opened with finger prints on them. Coins can and do come from the mint with them from time to time. You’ve clearly made up your mind that you want it to be them no matter how unlikely it is they did it to three when thousands of coins a day get graded by them without that happening

 

It's well known that coins come from the mint, in the plastic, with prints. I can see PCGS messing up on one coin but not 3 out of 5. It's possible you may have printed one.

 

What I stated is completely honest.

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