What's Your Method For Handling Coins?

Like so many others above, clean hands generally.

But like jbuck, when putting coins in an album, I will use cotton gloves.

I also use clean hands and only pick up coins by the edges. I have a pair of cotton gloves, but have not used them in a long time.

No wonder why our hobby is getting so expensive !

I was using cotton gloves, but found it a bit difficult to handle small coins with them. you sort of lose your sense of "touch" when they are on...

So now I just use nitrile gloves.. I get a box of 100 of them and keep them by my collection. Usually, I only put them on my "dominant hand". They allow you to handle things while still keeping your sense of 'touch', and they are latex-free and powder-free.. and presume if they are good enough for lab use, food use, or medical use, they are good enough to handle a lowly coin..

I just toss them after I use them.. but a box of 100 lasts me months and only costs about $10...

Michael