Handling Coins Question

I see your point

 

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Glitch

 

Will you show one of these album’s pages?

 

Grasp them firmly by the edges, then throw them hard at the hole, so that they hit it squarely and sink in.

 

LOL @GDJMSP . I like that one.

 

Because they differentiate between "circulation wear" and wear caused by coin to coin friction such as roll/stacking friction. So yes, a Saint with roll friction on the breast/knee is still uncirculated and can grade as high as MS67. For example:




When the TPGs look for circulation wear, they typically look for some disturbance in the fields. In absence of field disturbance, slight high point wear is often viewed as coin to coin friction and the coin is graded as a mint state coin.

 

Honestly, I think people waaaaaaaayyyyyy overreact to fingerprints. They can be distracting or even ugly, but sometimes, I think they actually provide some character to a coin. Here is a 1940-S Jefferson Nickel that I think looks very cool with a fingerprint. So cool in fact, that I have added it to my album collection.




And while Doug and I don't agree on much, we do agree that wearing gloves reduces your dexterity, vastly increases your probability that you will drop the coin and cause a rim ding (or worse), and should never be word when handling coins.

 

I tried cotton gloves for a while and found they made me even more clumsy than my natural dis-talents (love to make up words). After some thought, I also realized that the cotton would absorb my skin oils eventually and potentially transfer them to the coins. So, I gave them up.

Now, I handle the coins with my bare fingers, carefully by the edges, while I sneeze on them.

 

Great! Now we just need someone else to provide the coins and the album.