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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 2759050, member: 74282&quot;]Honestly I don&#039;t think there&#039;s any trick to handling ancients other than to wash and fully dry your hands first and handle them over a soft surface. Ancients can be fragile for a variety of reasons, so a soft surface is recommended and I found out the hard way by dropping a denarius on a table from a similar height as in the video of the solidus above and having a very small chip come off due to internal crystallization. I have also heard of gold coins, due to how soft the metal is, picking up dings from similar drops.</p><p><br /></p><p>Otherwise, people have been handling ancients and other coins without gloves, slabs or anything else for years and I really don&#039;t feel like they&#039;re necessary. I also don&#039;t think that leaving the coins sitting like that in the picture above will damage them. Most of these were probably sitting in a hoard somewhere with hundreds of coins piled on top of them. As long as they&#039;re sitting still they&#039;re probably not going to damage each other.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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