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Cheap Harris 10x. I have a few I keep handy.
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United States
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Eschenbach, Ohhh kanga got some bucks?  John1  |
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United Kingdom
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To be honest, for what I collect I only have use for a 3x foldaway lens I bought from my opticians and a 5x jewellers' eyeglass my Dad used to use.
Ancients / mediaeval coins are what I collect and if it's not visible by eye it's not too important! The only real use I have for a lens is to check for overstrikes where die has been altered.
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United States
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Anything my cheap Bausch & Lomb 5/7x duplex isn't up to, goes under my camera lens.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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Just a cheapie 10x..  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I've been using this 16x Anco since early 1972.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Harris 16x triplet
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04/08/2015 5:42 pm
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Canada
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A jewellers 10x triplet for most coins, that one has a sentimental value to me as well, since I bought it for taking a gemstones course in my undergraduate degree. Made in Germany, cost me over $200 in the early 1990s.
For closer looks, I do have a fantastic 20x lens, made by Iwamoto, by far the best optics I have ever used...
"Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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United States
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I've been doing some research the last couple days, and found that there's no real reason why I can't use my imaging setup (tethered Canon dSLR with duplicating lens) in Live View to survey coins onscreen for extended periods of time. My loupe isn't going to get much use into the future. Google "(your camera) sensor overheat" to see where I went. |
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Russian Federation
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To be honest, for what I collect I only have use for a 3x foldaway lens I bought from my opticians and a 5x jewellers' eyeglass my Dad used to use.
Ancients / mediaeval coins are what I collect and if it's not visible by eye it's not too important! The only real use I have for a lens is to check for overstrikes where die has been altered. I tend to buy a (relative) lot of late Roman bronzes and Russian wire money - series both known for relatively small coin size (and the latter are also full of tiny letters). So yeah, I'm accustomed to looking for details a bit too tiny to see with a regular eye... so I just take off the glasses. I'm terribly nearsighted - around minus 8 dioptries - so without glasses, my best viewing distance is somewhere around 2-3 inches, which makes me able to see very tiny features (and yet I still sometimes end up with coins - usually modern ones, naturally - which seem to have details too tiny for even me to see; in which case, yes, I take an old 3x or 5x loupe and try to look through it). |
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United States
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I carry a 5X Eschenbach and a 10X Bausch&Lomb. For some attribution work I use a Bausch desktop stereo microscope.
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United States
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I use this guy, and I love it.  |
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United States
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Cheapest I can afford 10X, 20X.
Made in China. Don't care.
To me, loops see all the same. I looked at a 42/1 Merc under a $20 loupe and a $200 loupe.
I could not tell the difference.
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United States
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When shopping, I carry a Bausch and Lomb 7x Hastings Triplet. However, at home, if I want a closer look, I prefer to use my ultra-budget macro lens. For those of you with a canon DSLR, the 35-80 mm EF lens (which can be had second-hand for ca. $30) can be turned into an macro lens by simply removing the front elements. Here's an example of a Walking Liberty mint mark through the lens - apologies for the poor focus.  |
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