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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sturmgrenadier, post: 1101291, member: 18711&quot;]Chalk this story up to my being really stupid and careless. I went to a local coin show&nbsp; two weekends ago, and I bought a PCGS MS-66 Albany half dollar. I examined the coin&nbsp; under lamplight using a 5X magnifier, and I thought that it looked great. Later, after I bought it, I looked at it (again) and was horrified to find a very prominent thumbprint/fingerprint that covers a large part of the reverse side with whitish-colored lines. I&#039;m puzzled as to how I missed it. I don&#039;t know if the bright light from the lamp washed out the color? At any rate, I am negligent for not examining the coin more carefully before buying<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>My first question is whether there any applicable rules of thumb (no pun intended) regarding fingerprint blemishes? Are they treated similarly to bag marks (location, severity and impact upon eye-appeal are all factored in)? Is there a maximum grade that a coin can receive if it has a light/medium/heavy fingerprint? I thought I recall reading in some reference book (it might be the 6th Edition ANA Grading Standards) that a lightly fingerprinted coin can still receive a grade of MS-65, but I don&#039;t know if PCGS adheres to the same grading standards. </p><p><br /></p><p>In looking at the coin, common sense dictates to me that there is no way that this coin can legitimately be graded MS-66 (not with its prominence and large impact upon eye appeal). My theory as to what happened is that a careless/ignorant person fingerprinted the coin when slipping it into the plastic flip for grading at PCGS. I understand that one can resubmit a coin to PCGS for a regrade, and if it comes back with a lower grade, they will either buy the coin back or pay the difference between the market values of the two grades. Do you think this coin would be a good candidate for such a regrade? Incidentally,[ATTACH]110210.vB[/ATTACH] even if this were a legitimate, problem-free MS-66 Albany, I would have overpaid a bit (I paid $580.00 for it). Thanks for your opinions</p><p><br /></p><p>-Richard</p><p><img src="http://file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Richard/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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