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RE: Silverbugs: latest coin purchases
Last image where one touches the other, my inner collector goes like ARGHHH NOOOO... ahahaha I despise even doing a small hairline-scratch on them :P
Last image where one touches the other, my inner collector goes like ARGHHH NOOOO... ahahaha I despise even doing a small hairline-scratch on them :P
Hehe, sorry. I do treat my silver pretty well. I wear gloves when touching them, and they will be safely tucked away.
I rarely use gloves, but I do touch them on the perimeter only... I will tend to avoid all kind of hard surfaces to place them on, or use a cloth / towel before doing so. Any capsule that has any kind of gap, I will also fill with some small material in order to avoid a coin banging inside the capsule. I avoid roll tubes entirely due to coin-coin friction and small gaps that create even more friction.
I know 99.9% of collectors don't go to such lengths, but I'm hit with a compulsive-type thinking to preserve them in the best state possible.
Actually, I can determine the love one has for their coins (in an artistic and collector sense) just by looking at how they position them, how they touch them, how they place them on a surface etc. When I see youtube videos of people handling them "normally", doing unboxings and dropping them on the table etc, I'm like "OOOMMMMGGGG NOOOOOO, HE FUCKED UP THE COIN", ahahhaah.... You'll see dealers, coin shop owners etc, these guys are usually the roughest with the coins - unless you find someone who loves what they are doing. Otherwise, they treat so many per day that they don't care. It's "merchandise" so they don't give a *uck. Their moves are not very careful because they don't place any particular value in any one of them - and the way their body moves betrays their mindset. This is not just for gold/silver etc, it's for all coins. You can see people how they touch coins and get an idea on how much appreciation they have for them.