How Do You Handle Your Coins?

I very rarely use gloves. I found I'm more prone to dropping coins with gloves on. With a lot of experience you'll discover you don't really need them. However, pressing coins into albums is not something I do either.

If I do feel a coin may have been compromised by possible touching, I simply give it a good rinse with acetone before storing.

I keep mine in those little coin holders that you put into like a binder or something. Some of my recent jefferson's and wheaties I keep in a container that has sections.

@CelticKnot - ya know what they say about a man who has thick fingers, right?!

When I crack a coin out of a slab to put into a album I usually leave the coin right in the plastic holder,pull out the plastic tab from my album and ill bend the coin out of the plastic piece and right into its respective hole in the album,if the coin needs a nudge to go into place I use the same piece of the plastic the coin came out of and give it a press down. Don't even need to touch any coins really and its all over and done with in a matter of 20 seconds.

Always with unwashed hands after eating a big piece of greasy pizza.

Clean dry hands are a far better option than using gloves.
Just only hold the coin by its edges and you won't do it any harm whatsoever ( How do you think a coin grader holds your coin when assessing in at PCGS/NGC) If you use gloves there is a very real chance you will drop it.
If you don't want to touch the coin just open one end of a saflip and use the other end to scoop it up and it will slide into the open pocket with ease and won't harm the coin.

Push in albums are ok for circulated low value coins But they will eventually ruin any nice coin over time because they offer little or NO protection to the coins.
All my coins go into saflips/2x2's then are stored in archival quality binders that I store Flat.
The coins that I have in slabs are stored in the "Blue Boxes" supplied by PCGS, In special pages that hold slabs then stored in archival binders again I also have a few of the nice "lighthouse" wooden boxes designed to hold slabs.

I cannot fathom why some people worry about how to handle a coin and then put it into a push in album because if stored in this manner it will get damaged anyway.

If you truly care about your coins then clean dry hands to handle them and use the appropriate storage system is the best way to ensure that they suffer NO damage

Just remember that actual latex can cause (sometimes quite severe) allergic reactions Oldehraim.

Hopefully yours are something like neoprene or another material. If not I'd advise swapping the latex.

Agreed.


I use a soft, white, clean cotton cloth for pushing coins into the Dansco; and even then I try to keep to the rims.