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Argh, Gloves Please!!!

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 Posted 07/27/2012  12:59 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add appleangel07 to your friends list

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There's only one way to sanitize those fingers.... FIRE!


Looks to me like that person has a fungus which is very contagious,even handling the coin after that person is enough to get it,eeeewwwwwww.
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 Posted 07/27/2012  01:04 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add enworb to your friends list

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Looks to me like that person has a fungus which is very contagious,even handling the coin after that person is enough to get it,eeeewwwwwww.


As I said BURN THEM OFF! Hopefully the seller isn't a dentist!

Makes you wonder who or what has touched your coins before
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 Posted 07/27/2012  01:34 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Peter S Thomas to your friends list
Ok I get what you are all are saying still a half million dollar coin....
I would not even breath on the thing.

As for old mateys fingers. nothing more to be said I think.
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 Posted 07/27/2012  03:20 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list
My main concern with the OP photo shot is not the fact she's not wearing gloves, but that she's holding the coin way up off the ground; I assume there's a big fluffy object just out of camera shot for it to land on, in case she drops it. A drop from that height onto a sharp object or hard surface could create a dint or edge knock that subtracts tens of thousands of dollars off the value.

In that sense, not wearing gloves is good, since you're far more likely to mishandle and drop a coin while wearing gloves.
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 Posted 07/27/2012  03:27 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add trout1105 to your friends list

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My main concern with the OP photo shot is not the fact she's not wearing gloves, but that she's holding the coin way up off the ground; I assume there's a big fluffy object just out of camera shot for it to land on, in case she drops it. A drop from that height onto a sharp object or hard surface could create a dint or edge knock that subtracts tens of thousands of dollars off the value.


I doubt very much that another couple of dings or scratches will make any difference to the condition of that particular coin
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 Posted 07/29/2012  01:54 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add nealeffendi to your friends list
I agree with Sap.
Some years ago I held the highest graded example of a 1931 dropped 1 Indian ($18,000 at the time) when the dealer showed it to me.
I dropped it (bummer).
Luckily my other hand caught it.
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 Posted 07/29/2012  02:01 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Fuzzy317 to your friends list
Some on CCF can't really complain about this. Probably 1/4 of the pictures posted here or in the auction section are of coins in someone's ungloved hand.

edit - more like 1/4 of the pictures here
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07/29/2012 02:06 am
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 Posted 07/29/2012  02:05 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add oh my florin to your friends list
Far out that is really risky handling a coin like that! imagine if it fell! I am sure coinworks wont be very forgiving
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 Posted 07/29/2012  02:11 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add penny dreadful to your friends list
Urrrgggh, that ebay one is GROSS

That coin'll need fumigating after having those manky fingers on it

Should've used a hand model
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 Posted 07/29/2012  02:17 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SilverCoinBoi to your friends list
I might vomit after seeing that mans nail. Thank you for the nightmares.
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 Posted 07/29/2012  02:18 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Fuzzy317 to your friends list
I am scared to ask this question: was the other hand worse? yuck
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 Posted 07/29/2012  02:32 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add bellyflorin to your friends list
hey SIlvercoinboi , I think that might be a woman's hand lol, I can see residue nail polish lol, yep might need some acetone on coin and fingers .lol
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 Posted 07/29/2012  02:41 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Squire Wilson to your friends list
... maybe you are right bellyflorin .

Maybe the woman (?) has had the misfortune of visiting a not-all-too sanitary salon ?

Squire

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 Posted 07/29/2012  04:04 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Steele to your friends list
it looks like he just dug that coin out of the ground with his bare hands. and he/she still couldn't get rid of that fungus.
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 Posted 07/29/2012  05:52 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SilverCoinBoi to your friends list


Runnnnnnnnnnnn!

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