What's Your Method For Handling Coins?

For low grade wheats and other coins, all you really have to worry about is if your hands are clean and dry.

For higher grade stuff, I always wear white cotton gloves. I also do this with all of my medals.

I prefer to cover my hands with corrosive and abrasive oils and waxes, which I then coat in silica powder to make my fingers extra slippery. My favorite place to stand while holding them is shallow puddles of strong acids resting on notably rough floors.

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Just playing everyone. Have a great day!

What people have said before is generally accepted as the way to go. Do what they say.

Peace.

I have a dozen pairs of cotton gloves. I will wash my hands and change gloves periodically if handling a large number of coins.

Remember, spit is still the best way to clean an old painting.

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