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'.
I don't know. Perhaps they want to hide their fingerprints, which might otherwise sometimes lead to their being arrested.
Not really a glove guy even in cold weather. I put gloves on I drop things. There really isn't a need for gloves if you handle them correctly.
I have been known to wear white cotton gloves when photographing coins, not so much to protect the coins from my hands, or to protect my hands from the coins (LOL), but rather to protect the viewers from the sight of my ragged cuticles or gnarly fingernails (you're welcome). Usually I am fairly well manicured, but there are some times my hands are not the most photogenic. I know we've all seen some folks with pretty disgusting fingernails posting coin pics. Just sayin'... Indeed.
They might be wearing gloves because of the complaints on-line about people holding coins with their bare fingers when they photograph them. Oddly those who collect ancient coins are not as fussy about naked fingers.
Criminals are usually stupid. I know a criminal forensic scientist and he once told me how a burglar had been arrested and accused of several robberies and when the detective was questioning him, the burglar said, "you can't pin anything on me Copper I wore gloves". The cop said "Yes but we found the gloves and your fingerprints were inside them". The burglar said "OK its a fair cop but I didn't do all of them". Go figure.......
