I'm posting this for some end of week light relief. I trawl through Ebay in spare moments mainly because I have a sense of humour. Over the past few months I have noticed a number of different vendors proudly displaying slabbed coins whilst they are wearing heat resistant gloves. I appreciate wearing thin cotton gloves are used for significant historical items but slabbed coins? Really ? Is there something we need to know? I bought a Scuba demand valve regulator some years ago and it had a Californian label attached warning me that the mouthpiece could be a carcinogenic plastic. I decided there and then that I would not eat the mouthpiece and simply stick to plain food. Here is the latest coin I came across. Of course the seller could be worried about catching bronze disease from this one. Why do you think these sellers wear protective gloves? I don't think anyone with Eczema , Dermatitis or Psoriasis would want to wear such coarse gloves. Forrest Gump comes to mind. SIASD.
"Putting on airs." (It's an antiquated idiom, but no other phrase better fits my #1 hunch as to the seller's possible rationale. See the picture below which resulted from my request of Gemini AI to illustrate.)
All I can offer is that trolling through fleaBay pictures, you can find a lot of nasty 'accessories'.
