Just wondering who uses what and why? I ask as I was going to get some cotton gloves but then thought about the rubber coated tongs, sooner or later I'll end up with both but wondered what to get first as I've been thinking gloves.
I use the cotton gloves as I would be worried that the tongs might slip
and the coin would end up on the floor
Tongs are clumsy. I think you would be much better off with gloves.
Nice thing about circulated coins.... don't need either. ;)
But yeah, gloves.
I did buy some rubber tipped tongs and they've lost their rubber really quickly and I've lost count of the number of times smaller coins have flown across the room. Gloves all the way.
well thats depends on the length of your fingers.
being a man you maybe OK but I have about 1/2" of glove flapping around at the end of my fingers and this gets very annoying
but good things come in small packages, so I won't bitch too much, lol
Quote from: 'lacey' pid='20238' dateline='1372832697'well thats depends on the length of your fingers.
Don't they sell vacuum pumps to fix that? :angel:
*duck*
I have about 10 pairs of white cotton gloves. When they get dirty I chuck them in the machine. Easy peasy. Never had tongs, I don't know why I'd use them.
some museum research also advises to simply wash hands
and handle on the rim only
I use both. Gloves for handling new coins, ie presses at the VG in Canberra as tongs/tweezers are to fidly. Tweezers/tongs when scanning the coins.
Yes, the plastic on the tweezers does wear away but I replace it with electrical spaghetti.........
Quote from: 'robbiegal' pid='20252' dateline='1372838633'some museum research also advises to simply wash hands
and handle on the rim only
I would seriously rethink the idea when handling 50 cent coins.
There is a lot of flat area on the rim of these that would just love to pick up a fingerprint :dash1:
Quote from: 'trout' pid='20258' dateline='1372839918'Quote from: 'robbiegal' pid='20252' dateline='1372838633'some museum research also advises to simply wash hands
and handle on the rim only
I would seriously rethink the idea when handling 50 cent coins.
There is a lot of flat area on the rim of these that would just love to pick up a fingerprint :dash1:
Yeah I'd stick to gloves when handling any choice or Gem coins or even good UNC's
Thanks team, sounds like gloves it is so now I have to find some here and hope lincraft or some where has some :good:
Quote from: 'ausjack' pid='20270' dateline='1372843063'Thanks team, sounds like gloves it is so now I have to find some here and hope lincraft or some where has some :good:
I get mine from the IGA store $2 and that is for two!
just wash them regularly or you waste the effort of putting them on
so I have ones for sorting and ones for my good coins and proofs etc
Woolworths usually have cotton gloves in multi-packs as well Ausjack.
Pedro
Quote from: 'Pedro' pid='20273' dateline='1372843457'Woolworths usually have cotton gloves in multi-packs as well Ausjack.
Pedro
is that in the section with the laundry stuff?
I never seem to be able to find them in woolies
If the cotton gloves are not in the Laundry aisle, try looking in the aisle where the ladies stockings are, as they used to be used for donning the stockings to stop any rough patches on the hands (or long fingernails) from laddering the stockings. If that fails, ask a staff member. Woolies and Coles both sell them.
Yep, in Sydney at least the gloves are in the laundry aisle at Woolies.
Pedro
I wonder if this link will work. Woolies shop from home
Ansell Cotton GLoves (http://www2.woolworthsonline.com.au/#url=/Shop/ProductDetails%3FStockcode%3D15804%26name%3Dansell-gloves-cotton%26search%3Dgloves)
Thanks all, I'll have a look at woolies first and with a bit of luck I won't have to do much running around at all :)
It probably goes without saying, but just in case... you still need to be ultra-gentle, even with gloves on. Remember that if a cotton bud will scratch a coin, so will a cotton glove. The glove is just there to keep your oily mitts away from the coin. :)
Still try and handle the coin by the edges. I get so upset if a seller mishandles a coin in front of me that is just one step away from being my coin. Sorry that's off topic, I've never walked into a shop and seen a dealer with gloves on.
They tell me Michael Jackson's right hand was an avid collector.
thanks for the woolie tips guys
yeah I HATE seeing pple handle coin bare handed
men seem to do it more
or is it that most dealers are men?
I did notice the way Belinda Downie handled that proof 1930 penny on the tellie
http://www.bigpondmoney.com.au/coin-collecting-for-fun-and-profit
(http://i1285.photobucket.com/albums/a585/auntyrobbs/coin-collecting-penny_zpsf3169267.jpg)
Sorry, but the writing in the story states a "Belinda Downie holding the prestigious 1930 penny "and not "Proof penny".
Even I bought my two 1930 pennies from Belinda, we all handled the coins with bare hands. No gloves, no tweezers, nuttin. After all the coins were circulated.
really
you didn't find them in lots
that is how I want to get mine
Belinda was wearing gloves when she was holding the proof on the tellie but I couldn't find the story
I only found the abc one about the controversy as to whether it was a Le Souef coin or not
Quote from: 'robbiegal' pid='20393' dateline='1372942440'Belinda was wearing gloves when she was holding the proof on the tellie
Well, yeah, you would... there are what, six of them total?
Circulated ones are as common as dirt by comparison. :dodgy:
this is the link to the 7.30 report
about 1/4 the way through Belinda is glamorously wearing the white glove
the story is in the link on the right hand side
it is interesting if you are interested in the pre-dec rarities
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2009/s2537612.htm
It doesn't need prominent people provenance."
:i_agree: ... he's absolutely 100% correct.
there are the fors and against
to glove or not to glove
Belinda Downie knows a hell of a lot more than me about rare coins
but i'd still wear the gloves , even with the old holey dollar and dump and at $80,000 estimate as well
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - MAY 10: Belinda Downie, CEO of Coinworks holds the Holey Dollar and Dump as she prepares to put them on display at the World Stamp Expo on May 10, 2013 in Melbourne, Australia. The coins are valued at $AUD 80,000 as experts estimate that only 350 Holey dollars and 1500 dumps remain. The World Stamp Expo is the largest exhibition of its kind in Australia and the second largest ever held in the world. (Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images)
(http://i1285.photobucket.com/albums/a585/auntyrobbs/belindadownieHDanddump_zpse74ab8e3.jpg)
Yay I finally got some gloves..two lots actually as I went to woolies $1.99 for a pair and then thought I'd suss big w and got the same thing for $1.89 so now I have some but this one size fits all is a load of BS..they only just fit and I don't think I have big hands :)
So I'm just about set to go pro now :mocking:
there is something special about donning the gloves and then handling coins
yeah now I know why MJ liked them so much :laugh2: I'm so trying to avoid doing this as they so make you want too being all nice and soft like they are..I wonder how silk feel :blush2:
:acute: this is all your fault robbie :laugh2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv-34w8kGPM
and it was 2 pair for the $2 not one sorry, so I suppose that's ok :)