How do you handle your coins?

[Half Penny Jon 0]

Hi everyone,

How do you handle your coins? I use special coin tweezers or just hold them by the rim to prevent corrosion.

[Sylvester 15]

i handle them by hand but only hold the edges.

[mint_mark 9]

I've never heard of coin tweezers! Do they have little rubber grippy bits on the end?

I hold them between my finger and thumb, and over a soft surface just in case

[william 0]

I also hold mine between my finger and thumb, but only round the edges . I hold them over a padded case incase I drop them.

[Emperor Oli 0]

I just hold mine between finger and thumb. I've yet to find some nice white gloves though!

[william 0]

I've yet to find some nice white gloves though!

I'm considering buying some of them, do you know where to get them, I would be very interested...

[Emperor Oli 0]

Actually I've been worrying my parents, but on sites for Wedding attire, they do nice white gloves for the bridegroom etc which are nice but I don't know their buildup and they are quite expensive!

[william 0]

Actually I've been worrying my parents, but on sites for Wedding attire, they do nice white gloves for the bridegroom etc which are nice but I don't know their buildup and they are quite expensive!

Practically everything to do with weddings is expensive...

[Chris Perkins 228]

What's wrong with my cotton cheap gloves £9.00 for 3 pairs?

[Emperor Oli 0]

One shouldn't skimp though

[Emperor Oli 0]

That's the thing though - why three pairs??

[william 0]

What's wrong with my cotton cheap gloves £9.00 for 3 pairs?

I didn't know you had some of them (goes off to have a look at the accessory shop...)! Where are they, I can't seem to find them, can you give me the URL?

[Emperor Oli 0]

Me neither

[Chris Perkins 228]

http://www.predecimal.com/collectors/shop/gloves.htm

Aha, so that's why none of those are selling! You can get to them but it isn't easy!

I used to sell 3 pairs at a time because of minimum credit card transaction amounts....I can of course let you have 1 pair for £3.00

[Emperor Oli 0]

I'll buy some next time I purchase some farthings!

[Master Jmd 83]

I hold mine around the rim...

[Chris Perkins 228]

Master JMD has worked out the signature!

[Master Jmd 83]

how did you guess

[Half Penny Jon 0]

I've never heard of coin tweezers! Do they have little rubber grippy bits on the end?

I hold them between my finger and thumb, and over a soft surface just in case

I got them from Lindner when I bought my coin trays. Yes, they have bits of rubber on the ends.

[william 0]

I will buy some of those gloves soon...

[Chris Perkins 228]

I can get tweezers too, and the Lighthouse large coin trays are exactly the same as Lindner in every respect, they stack together etc, you can't tell them apart, except for the name on the drawer handle.

He's a thing that you maybe didn't know....Lindner enforce a price fixing policy and for a coin dealer to be eligible to be supplied by Lindner you have to promise that you will sell them at the price they tell you te sell them at!

That's why the lighthouse ones are cheaper, I can charge what I like, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if they are even made in the same factory, for that matter.

I do not supply Lindner because of the price fixing, and would only do so if I was asked to be enough people.

[Half Penny Jon 0]

I definately didn't know that about Lindner, I ordered four trays and countless capsules from them direct so I wasn't aware of any price fixing. The only compensation is the fact that their trays are quite good.

[Chris Perkins 228]

Indeed they are, they're the best, but Lighthouse are the same!....And if you ordered from Lindner in the UK, then you ordered from a normal Lindner dealer, like I am a normal Lighthouse dealer. They do the foreign opperations cheaply by just picking a dealer in the UK to call 'Lindner UK', or whatever.

The only way you can truly order direct, is from the German factory, like I do. Hence my prices are pretty damn good for Lighthouse.

[TomGoodheart 402]

I used to be paranoid and only carefully handle coins by the edges. I never used tweezers, I'd worry I'd drop the coin!

Now most of my stuff is 360 years old and I think it seems a shame not to handle a piece of history like that. I obviously would'nt stick my fingers all over the thing or pick it up while eating jam sandwiches. I'm getting one of those Nichols cabinets soon so I'll probably play with my coins more once they are out of the coinholders they currently reside in.

Course, my Ed VII matt proof will stay protected!

[william 0]

Everyone on here seems to be obsessed with those Nichols things!!