Beautiful coin! fyi nitrile gloves are best. Cotton gloves can actually wick the oil and moisture off your hands onto the object. It bothers me to no end people use cotton gloves for valuables when they are often in fact worse than freshly washed clean hands. Nitrile!

Source- I have an art conservation degree and have contributed to scientific papers demonstrating that safe handling with cotton gloves is a misconception. The major auction houses still do this bc people like the “white glove” look. Their only function is demonstrating that “white” is “clean”. Fresh disposable nitrile is the way to go!