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@jokingjoker... WOW!....can anyone say manicure? At least some clippers and Palmolive...  Edited by amida17
07/26/2012 11:21 pm
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Actually, the patina on that coin should protect it. Under these particular circumstances, OK to handle as shown. Would have preferred to see it in some sort of holder.
I have never seen fingerprints on an ancient coin.
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 icky, picked a fight with a fan, or a hammer |
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There's only one way to sanitize those fingers.... FIRE!!! I tried looking for a smiley with a face vomiting but could only get Re the holeydollar  with sel |
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That's not a good look, is it?  The other thing is that it could so easily slipped out of her fingers, and onto the floor..  At $450K plus, I'd have been using the kid glove treatment - that's like holding my house between thumb and forefinger  |
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Actually, the patina on that coin should protect it. Under these particular circumstances, OK to handle as shown. Would have preferred to see it in some sort of holder.
I have never seen fingerprints on an ancient coin.
As these were originally a non Australian and probably circulated coin when they were altered and counter stamped There would be little chance that there would be a coin surviving in a grade that would require extreme handling protection. I doubt very much that there would be any patina remaining on these to get damaged via the odd fingerprint  |
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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Far out that is really risky handling a coin like that! imagine if it fell! I am sure coinworks wont be very forgiving  Edited by oh my florin
07/29/2012 04:49 am
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