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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 8066944, member: 112&quot;]I understand your opinion Cal but there are some things about gloves you&#039;re not taking into account. For instance, the coins you pictured, the only way they can get fingerprints on them like that is if one touches the face of the coin. And your thinking is that gloves will prevent that from happening. Well, it will, but if you touch the face of a coin with gloves on, something else will still happen. If you&#039;re wearing cloth gloves and you touch the face of the coin it&#039;s downright easy to hairline or even lightly scratch the coin. And if you&#039;re wearing latex, or nitrile, or some other kind of synthetic gloves you won&#039;t leave a fingerprint, but you will leave a smudge on the face of the coin. And that can be just as bad as the fingerprint. </p><p><br /></p><p>The key is, to <b>never</b> touch the face of the coin at all, and you do that by only holding the coin by the edges ! If you only touch the edges, you can&#039;t put fingerprints on it ! And as long as one washes their hands before handling coins, you won&#039;t leave finger oils on the edges either.</p><p><br /></p><p>Problem is, if you hold the coin by the edges while you&#039;re wearing gloves, you loose a great deal of dexterity and the risk of dropping the coin goes up exponentially. And that can and often does end up being far worse than any fingerprint could ever think about being !</p><p><br /></p><p>Now you&#039;re welcome to your opinion, but everyone reading this thread needs to understand that professionals, dealers and professional graders at TPGs, and just about all knowledgeable and advanced collectors, they don&#039;t ever wear gloves ! And they don&#039;t for all the reasons I&#039;ve outlined above.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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