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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;buddy16cat, post: 1413306, member: 37356&quot;]<b>Still a little confused.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I do have latex gloves and have used them in the past and probably should use them again.&nbsp; If I came across a rare error coin or key date I know not to do anything to it, I have special felt bag set aside for those.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think that you can absorb things through your fingertips and washing your hands after does the trick.&nbsp; The one thing I have encountered is particles flying up my nose causing me to sneeze excessively but that could just be disintegrated paper pulp.&nbsp; I know I encountered a penny I couldn&#039;t even read the date well because some goop on the date.&nbsp; I put into alcohol and gently rubbed it off.&nbsp; That is true though that someone said, &quot;why can&#039;t we just do what we want?&nbsp; What is all this about not touching coins&quot;.&nbsp; I think the big question I have is what did these coins go through before I got a hold of them.&nbsp; That 1913 wheat penny found in change from Dunkin Doughnuts has been through all kinds of stuff before I got it.&nbsp; It has been handle by many, many people and all of a sudden when I get it I can&#039;t even touch it or get the dirt and germs off of it?&nbsp; Of course I am mostly talking about copper pennies saved as bullion and more common wheat pennies, if I encountered a key date or error coin worth significantly more, my treatment of it would change.&nbsp; When a penny has gone through the masses of people it picks up whatever was in those people&#039;s hands.&nbsp; My 1913 has been handled by people with 1913-present diseases, chronic nose-pickers, and people that don&#039;t wash their hands after using the toilet.&nbsp; That is not OCD it is fact.&nbsp; I do take my coins out in flip books and 2 by 2s and admire them, but they are in containers and do not worry about them.&nbsp; All you have to do to realize circulated coins are dirty is to open a roll and look through them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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