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Bedrock of the Community
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Stop playing with your coins. If you need to pick them up just grab them by the edge they will be fine. No need for fancy gloves in my opinion.  If your hands are clean and dry the edge wont do anything. Or slab a couple and you can handle them to your hearts content with no worries.
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If you're the type to use gloves - I'm not - nitrile is fine. It's more about a decent fit which doesn't surrender manual dexterity and tactile sensation than anything else, which is one reason I'm no fan of cotton gloves.
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Pillar of the Community
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Dave, I do agree the cotton gloves are a bit thick. And the reeded edge on proof coins can snag. BUT, they breathe better than the nitrile gloves do. I may switch over once I use up the cottons I have now as they WOULD be better dexterity wise. And I can pretend I am on the ambulance again. ;) LOL
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United States
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Examination nitrile gloves provide the greatest hand protection and as well as to keep coins. Compared to latex and vinyl, nitrile is the most protective material. Exam nitrile gloves are actually up to 3 times more puncture resistant than latex gloves.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Stop playing with your coins. If you need to pick them up just grab them by the edge they will be fine. No need for fancy gloves in my opinion.
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Australia
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Nitrile gloves are designed to be chemical and solvent resistant.
The problem with them for coin handling is that the nitrile rubber is too thick, which can lead to accidentally dropping a coin. You loose the nerve sensitivity in the tips of your fingers, if you wear any type of thick glove. Surgical gloves would be much better. The thinness of surgical gloves is one of the main reasons why surgeons wear them.
Some prefer lint free cotton gloves, but electrostatic attraction, especially in a dry atmosphere, can pick up unwanted dust in the gloves themselves.
In terms of chemical protection for a coin, more to the point should be wearing a mask, lest you sneeze. Droplets need to be washed off immediately, and preferentially with acetone or similar. With Covid-19, masks are normally within easy reach.
When it comes to very valuable coins,
for my part, I just freshly wash my hands, and carefully handle them on the edge, just like museum curators do.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I don't know how you are supposed to get coins in an album, for example, by only handling them by the edges.
I typically use cloth gloves but have used the nitrile ones on a couple of occasions as well. I still try to hold the coins by the edges, even with gloves on.
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United States
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 to the Community, davidmiller27!
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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I have never used 'press in' type coin albums, and thus the need for gloves for this reason does not exist. For me I am not keen on leaving the face of the coin open, where dust or airborne moisture may find it's way into the album.
When all of your coins are in 2x2's or are slabbed, the need for gloves does not exist. Normally clean hands are all that is necessary. Same applies when putting coins (including high MS and cameo proofs), in 2x2's, provided the coins are handled carefully by the edge.
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08/25/2021 8:53 pm
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Nitrile gloves do contain sulfur, though perhaps not as much as latex. Pretty much anything that qualifies as "rubber" has sulfur in it, to promote cross-linkages between the polymer molecules and make the product stretchy and rubbery. For the brief contact the rubber of gloves will have on your coins, it will not make any difference; handling coins with any kinds of gloves is better than no gloves at all, simply because your fingers ooze sulfur like crazy in the form of fingerprint oil. But don't store nitrile gloves in a sealed environment with coins; the sulfur will eventually outgas over time.
The main "problem" with nitrile gloves in this day and age is availability, especially if you live in a country where most of the nitrile gloves are imported. America and Europe have both blocked export of nitrile gloves, cutting off the usual supply routes for countries like Australia. The university where I work has had to resort to rationing to ensure all the labs and research facilities get their fair share of PPE supplies.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Australia
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Best to use gloves, when pressing coins into the recesses of the 'push-in' type of album. Lot of collectors use cotton gloves to avoid finger printing.
Only problem I can see with the 'push-in' type of album is that bronze coins can still be exposed to tone to brown in a humid atmosphere.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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When I was speaking of albums, it's really the Dansco or Whitman style that show both sides of the coin with plastic slides that protect the coins after they are in. I still put them in very carefully but some contact can't always be avoided, hence the gloves.
The toning issues I try to account for by using the Dansco slip cases, then into a zip lock bag with a desiccant pack, then into the safe that has its own desiccant packs. A defense in depth.
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08/26/2021 10:13 am
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When I was speaking of albums, it's really the Dansco or Whitman style that show both sides of the coin with plastic slides that protect the coins after they are in. I still put them in very carefully but some contact can't always be avoided, hence the gloves.  Gloves seem to give me extra thumbs, so I use a soft white cotton napkin to push coins into my Dansco and will press on the rims only.
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Belgium
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
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@ToaToa I use latex-free, medical examination nitrite gloves when handling any of my specimen or proof coins.  |
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