How Important Is It To Wash Hands at Coin Shows?

Coinosaurus

Some of those slabs probably pick up a lot of germs.

Conversely, even if you wash your hands, just entering some of the convention center restrooms may result in a net increase of germ acquisition.

PonyExpress8

I keep a small bottle of hand sanitizer at my table at the shows and use it regularly. It seems to be helping me as I have not gotten sick in quite awhile but then that could just be chance too. Customers are welcome to use it too.

GaCoinGuy

I carry a small tube of hand sanitizer with me most of the time anyways, so I use that. The plain, unscented, non-moisturizing stuff works for me.

I always use it after handling money....You never know whose G-string that $1 bill has been in

WTCG

Very important. Before leaving the coin show for the day I always wash both hands thoroughlly. After handling coins and slabs I wouldn't dare touch any food or any parts of my face.

Tdec1000

Some of the dealers I have seen have very bad hygiene as well!!

19Lyds

Interesting.

So tell me how many folks have gotten sick as a result of attending coin shows? Or is this just hypothetical hysteria?

messydesk

<< <i>Conversely, even if you wash your hands, just entering some of the convention center restrooms may result in a net increase of germ acquisition. >>


I suppose a page could come by with disinfectant hand wipes now and then. Or instead of Tootsie Rolls, a dealer could set out a basket of moist towelettes. Simple hand sanitizer isn't going to get coin cheese off your hands, it'll just sanitize it.

Jesh

Man some whacky threads here lately!!

coasterfan

That is the reason I don't search rolls. The germs of all humanity are festering in those things.

LindeDad

I would think that anyone that handles a lot of cash should make this a life style item.
Just as anyone that makes their living interacting with the public should get an annual flu shot if they can.

WTCG

<< <i>Interesting.

So tell me how many folks have gotten sick as a result of attending coin shows? Or is this just hypothetical hysteria? >>



I have. I have also gotten sick after eating convention center concession food, but that's another story.

Coinosaurus

<< <i>Man some whacky threads here lately!! >>



Kinda dull the last few weeks. Outside of Anaconda's reappearance........FUN was healthy but not the picture of irrational exuberance that we've come to expect in past years.......and there hasn't been a lot of gossip about the Stack's/Bowers merger........

NebuchadnezzarTheGreat

There are certain dealers that I don't even want to shake their hands...you walk out of the bathroom with them and they never visit the sink...

We go through at least a bottle of purel during every show!

dragon

I wouldn't even think of entering a coin show without wearing a full Class 3 Haz-Mat suit.

Mistercoinman

I just can't understand how humanity ever survived before 1990?

crypto79

HANDS?!? I am not convinced half the dealers bath at all

19Lyds

<< <i>

<< <i>Interesting.

So tell me how many folks have gotten sick as a result of attending coin shows? Or is this just hypothetical hysteria? >>



I have. I have also gotten sick after eating convention center concession food, but that's another story. >>

Obviously, you failed to wash that burger and its bun before you ate it!

ColonelJessup

<< <i>HANDS?!? I am not convinced half the dealers bath at all >>



Exactly what other parts are you touching?

potentially

BAJJERFAN

<< <i>Very important. Before leaving the coin show for the day I always wash both hands thoroughlly. After handling coins and slabs I wouldn't dare touch any food or any parts of my face. >>



They say that you can always tell that someone is a chemist because they wash their hands BEFORE they go to the bathroom.

RWB

Now I understand --- the guys I see going from the auction lot pickup to the Men's Room are really washing their hands with that funny smelling liquid stuff. Wow -- how wrong can one be!

edix2001

Going thru dealer's junk boxes makes the hands very dirty.

razzle

Shhh-it's the sanitizer that tones the coins... Unscrupulous sellers call it "After Toilet"...

yellowkid

I enjoy licking the slabs more after they've been handled.

BillyKingsley

I always wash my hands before and after doing anything with coins or currency. If I am doing them for a long time I will stop and wash my hands occasionally during the process.

This is more for the coin's protection than mine, as I deal almost exclusively with raw coins; I accidentally damaged a medal I got when I was about 10 by touching it with dirty fingers, and I am doing my best to make sure that doesn't happen again.

Lakesammman

VERY important - The bathrooms at FUN were so bad I decided to just not "go".

Elcontador

You probably need to be more concerned with the hygienic state of many of the dealers than the coins. Just sayiing.........

ChrisRx

coasterfan

You should be extra cautious handling raw coins that may have circulated during the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918.

WoodenJefferson

So, if I run into this kind of dealer sitting behind the table,
do I assume he's selling clean, sterilized coins, or something
completely different.

ricko

Reasonable standards of personal hygiene should always be observed. Handling objects that others have handled, shaking hands etc...all demand the precaution of cleaning your hands. Cheers, RickO

BAJJERFAN

Clean hands are happy hands, eh?

notwilight

I recommend carrying a bottle of that hand sanitizer placebo crap around every where you go and wiping a gob of that on every time you touch something. Dealers will think you're an eccentric billionaire. --jerry

SeaEagleCoins

While I understand that for many here, bashing dealers is a natural past time... I can say quite emphatically that I have encountered far more unbathed and/or uncouth gas passing slobs in the aisles than I have behind the table... seriously... (no winky either)...


...but I will add this to soften the blow a little

BAJJERFAN

<< <i>While I understand that for many here, bashing dealers is a natural past time... I can say quite emphatically that I have encountered far more unbathed and/or uncouth gas passing slobs in the aisles than I have behind the table... seriously... (no winky either)...


...but I will add this to soften the blow a little >>



The "unwashed masses" who passes gasses!!

pendragon1998

I never need to wash my hands at shows, because I never touch a coin myself. I just bring this good fellow along with me everywhere I go on the floor, and he presents me with any coin I deign to inspect. White glove treatment, gents. He also serves me a fine five-course luncheon when I'm feeling a bit peckish. No bourse food passes these lips, I assure you. It's a little habit I picked up from Longacre.

Dog97

You see people in the bathroom finishing their biz and then grabbing the door handle and exiting, without washing their hands. Then the next guy does wash his hands but then grabs the door handle and gets dookie germs on his hands then goes and handles his hot dog from the snackbar. Basically he's eating smoebody else's dookie germs.
I was utilizing a urinal once and a guy stepped up to the one next to me. He started doing his biz and look over and recognized me and offered a handshake. I said "Nooo...I'm not shaking your hand."
Another time the paper towel dispenser was empty and I have to leave the bathroom with wet hands. Exiting the bathroom I saw smoebody I knew and shook his hand. The guy got a horrified look and said "Why is your hand wet?" I said "I dunno, I musta got pee on it." He started wiping his hand on his pants leg and I was thinking if that really was pee on my hand why is the idiot wiping it on his own pants?

Luckily the good coins are kept in locked glass cases so the scurvy masses can't contaminate them as bad.