The last of the four pictures: http://www.ebay.com/itm/UNCIRCULATE...8657659?pt=US_World_Coins&hash=item35d9e0d6fb Metal tweezer on an uncirculated coin that would be worth thousands. Luckily the coin here is a worthless modern fake. The lesson here... don't buy coins from people that obviously know nothing of how to handle them.
Well Dang! And all this time I thought THIS was the way to properly hold an expensive coin.............
Come on guys, that is NOT attractive, not even those droopers. Show a picture of Kate Upton holding a coin in that manner, now THAT would be a show stopper
To avoid running this thread even further off the rails, I'll leave this linked instead of embedding it: "way below my standards"
I always wear gloves on my expensive coins and hold them from the edges, circulated coins I normally don't care and will just handle them without gloves figured they have already been handled that way many times Pincers just seem like a really bad idea.