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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Leadfoot, post: 314706, member: 2972&quot;]That&#039;s a great point, and precisely why I use the following product to place my raw coins on (for instance in a photograph) and to remove dust:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.photosol.com/padproduct.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.photosol.com/padproduct.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.photosol.com/padproduct.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>They are basically disposable microfiber cloths.</p><p><br /></p><p>I ran into these quite some time ago through photography and have been using them successfully for a few years now.&nbsp; &nbsp; The key to this product is they are disposable, and as long as you store them in a dust free environment (for instance a thick ziplock bag) and in their original package, you get a dust-free surface to place a coin on or to wipe a coin with (extremely lightly, for instance to &quot;shoo&quot; dust off the coin - I AM NOT CONDONING WIPING ANY COINS!!!!).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I would highly recommend them too (they work great for glasses, lenses, and other &quot;delicate&quot; things).</p><p><br /></p><p>Hope this helps someone...Mike</p><p><br /></p><p>p.s. to the OP, <b>YES</b>, a light rub can hurt.&nbsp; Even the lightest of hairlines on a high-grade coin can be very costly.&nbsp; Obviously, if the coin is relatively cheap and circulated, the &quot;risk&quot; is much lower.&nbsp; Things such as rubbing a coin between cotton fingers will tend to show in a proof before it would in a mint state coin, and would tend to show in a mint state coin before it would show in a circulated coin.&nbsp; I wouldn&#039;t do it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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