Best gloves to use for coins? thermoplastic elastomer Gloves?

There is at least one grader at ANACS that wears/wore gloves. A few years ago I put in a submission of 10 coins to be graded on one of their specials, and they all came back with a latex smudge on the obverse field, in same position. The grader, or maybe an assistant, pushed my coins into the plastic sleeve with a gloved finger, and they forever have this smudge. That was the one and only time I have sent coins in for grading.

I believe it was noted before, but it is indeed proper to wear gloves when handling a proof coin. The edges of a proof coin are considered to be (nearly) as sacrosanct as the faces, so never touch a proof coin with bare hands, no matter how clean. It "just isn't done".

 

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Thats just simply nothing more than someones opinion and by no means actually true

 

It's a numismatic rule, mr B. Been so for 200+ years.

 

No, no it is not

 

When I use gloves (which is rarely) I use lint-free cotton gloves.

 

I’ve never wore gloves for coins. Only dropped one $5K coin, but my hands were swollen at the time.