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<p>[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 5228497, member: 76863"]Realistically assuming you don’t have mud or sauces etc all over your hands it’s fine as long as you have the rim. For heavily circulated coins like vfs and lower you can grab them wherever and it makes no difference, countless people have already touched them. </p><p><br /></p><p>now if you have a grade rarity or an expensive coin then yes washing your hands first wouldn’t be a bad idea. We’re so conditioned to try and be protective that sometimes we forget that touching something doesn’t mean there’s wear now or that there will be a fingerprint</p><p><br /></p><p>And yea you are more likely to drop something with gloves on[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 5228497, member: 76863"]Realistically assuming you don’t have mud or sauces etc all over your hands it’s fine as long as you have the rim. For heavily circulated coins like vfs and lower you can grab them wherever and it makes no difference, countless people have already touched them. now if you have a grade rarity or an expensive coin then yes washing your hands first wouldn’t be a bad idea. We’re so conditioned to try and be protective that sometimes we forget that touching something doesn’t mean there’s wear now or that there will be a fingerprint And yea you are more likely to drop something with gloves on[/QUOTE]
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