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POLL! What kind of gloves do you use to handle coins?

CoinHuskerCoinHusker Posts: 5,033 ✭✭✭
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Just wondering what kind of gloves you use (recommend) to handle your coins?
Collecting coins, medals and currency featuring "The Sower"

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  • CoinHuskerCoinHusker Posts: 5,033 ✭✭✭
    Oops, I forgot to mention latex.
    Collecting coins, medals and currency featuring "The Sower"
  • JRoccoJRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I don't like putting gloves on at all. I just make sure I'm concentrating on what I'm doing.
    Some coins are just plain "Interesting"
  • Dennis88Dennis88 Posts: 5,797 ✭✭✭
    I use finger condoms. They work fine for me......

    And, no fingerprints.

    Dennis
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  • CoinHuskerCoinHusker Posts: 5,033 ✭✭✭
    What ever happened to "safe" coin handling? Tsk, Tsk, Tsk
    Collecting coins, medals and currency featuring "The Sower"
  • JrGMan2004JrGMan2004 Posts: 7,557 ✭
    I usually don't handle raw coins very much, but when I do, I use some non-sterile latex gloves that my dad uses for handling film negatives, another thing that is bad to get fingerprints on! image
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  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    Aside from all the innuendo, I only use cotton gloves to get coins into my double sided album. Otherwise I don't worry about it.
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  • Fr8Tr8nFr8Tr8n Posts: 37
    Cotton or powder-free latex.
    "The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable." - James A. Garfield
  • ToninginthebloodToningintheblood Posts: 174 ✭✭✭
    "Kid Gloves"
    Specializing in coins with "thin film interference" & "sulfur impregnated surfaces" due to hanging out with "old bags" and "wrappers"
  • kamehameha00kamehameha00 Posts: 2,077
    None,the gloves get my hands and the gloves all sweaty and I end up dropping the coin.I just handle them carefully by the edges, haven't fingerprinted a coin yet.
  • CoinHuskerCoinHusker Posts: 5,033 ✭✭✭
    nwcs, sorry for the innuendo, but somewhere it kind of took on a life of it's own.
    Collecting coins, medals and currency featuring "The Sower"
  • Cam40Cam40 Posts: 8,146 ✭
    "Kid Gloves"

    GOOD ANSWER!!!!! image

    I,m one that doesnt believe in useing gloves to handle coins.
    As long as your not touching the sufaces and only holding the coin
    by the edges with clean dry hands, you have little to worry about, other than dropping the thing.
    Thats always a concern. Dont be nervous and you wont drop it most likely.

  • hamiltonjhhamiltonjh Posts: 1,140
    Powder-free latex when I'm handling them for excessive periods of time (putting in 2x2's, inspecting numerous coins under a magnifying glass).

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