Placing coins in albums

jclout

When you place a coin in an album do you use cotton gloves or just use your fingers?

indianabyron

cotten glove if you use your finger youll get finger prints on them



Byron

Geoman

Depends on the coin. I just use my hands, as I only am popping G-4 lincoln's into folders. But for my ASE, I use gloves.

dorkkarl

cotton gloves are fine, but i found myself prone to dropping the coin. i have a glass rod w/ a "nubby" end to it, & i use it to push the coin into it's repective slot. the nubby end is smooth & will not scratch the surface, nor is there a chance it will impart hairlines or leave tiny threads sitting on the coin.

on xf or better, recommend you NOT push the coin in w/ your finger.

K S

Gilbert

You can try latex gloves (using compressed are if they are powdered) or latex/rubber finger gloves/rubbers in lieu of cotton gloves if you are so inclined.

Alternatively, you can keep your hands clean and dry (which can reduce hand/finger oils) although the potential still exists, albeit greatly reduced, to impart fingerprints.

greghansen

For Unc. coins I just use my thumb fingernail on the rim of the coin to push it down.

Higashiyama

Of course, when it comes to state quarters for my daughters' collections, the bare thumb is fine -- brings back that childhood thumb-joint-compressing feeling from Whitman Lincoln cent days.

Barry

Either gloves, or if the gloves aren't available, I'll hold the coin by its edges and use a paper towel to press it into the hole.

LanLord

I guess I may be the only one that does this. I press the coin using the mylar surface of a 2X2 flip. It allows me to put pressure exactly where I want and not worry about finger prints. As to how to get it into the right spot to push it in the first place? Carefully manuvering with the flip that it came in and gently slide it on or near it's intended location.

MacCoin

hey LanLord me too. I can open a 2x2 without getting my finger all over the coin I just set it place only handleing it by the rim and pop it in with the 2x2. it ain't rocket science

LanLord

<< <i>hey LanLord me too. I can open a 2x2 without getting my finger all over the coin I just set it place only handleing it by the rim and pop it in with the 2x2. it ain't rocket science >>

Dam, there goes my patent.

mrfred

This point (fingerprints w/ albums) is one of several reasons I do not use albums -- my whole collection is in cardboard 2x2s (for the lower-value stuff) or saflips (for the better stuff). All handling is by the edge only, particularly w/ the better stuff. At present, the downside is that I can't "view and drool" a whole series the way you can when you use an album, but I am thinking to get some of those loose-leaf sheets that hold 2x2s, IF I can be guaranteed that the plastic in the sheets is inert.

I keep all the 2x2s in stackable plastic boxes, long/double red boxes, or for the good stuff the CoinWorld intercept-shield long double-wide boxes. But I am still sorting all this out. Actually, the organizing of the collection is itself a form of fun, I think.

By the way, "view and drool" is an expression I picked up on this board about a year ago. I forget who coined it.

paigowjohnny

Cotton gloves...always. Even for a beat up circ Lincoln cent. Force of habit...

golddustin

I will always wash and dry my hands, then use the "mylar" method mentioned above...it works really well. Speaking of albums, I use Whitman classic folders....on older coins there seems to be no effect on the coins' surfaces over time, but on some newer mint issues, the coins are toning pretty quickly...say over a matter of a few years. I wonder if the cardboard of the holder pages is causing this? Anybody else noticing this?

asnooker

I use notebooks filled with the plastic sheets with pockets. The ones I have for my larger coins are originally for baseball cards, pokemon etc etc They are PVC Free! So far so good and it's so easy to look at my coins (front & back) I use cotton gloves when ever I handle a raw coin.

satootoko

<< <i>I am thinking to get some of those loose-leaf sheets that hold 2x2s, IF I can be guaranteed that the plastic in the sheets is inert. >>



If the coin is inside the 2x2, how could PVC in the sheet affect the coin?

DoubleDime

I always use cotton gloves no matter what the grade is. I also always hold a coin by the edge, again no matter the grade.

dorkkarl

man, the mylar method. how much easier can it get? i'm going to start doing that.

K S