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Does anyone remember this? I had one when I was a kid (late 1960's- early 70's). You could load an entire roll of cents - quarters into the tube and pull a coin out one at a time and look at it under the lighted lens with a plastic slider bar. It would also allow you to flip the coin over to see the other side. It would then dump it out the bottom. Not very gentle, but it worked. I found this picture on ebay......  Here is the ebay link with more pictures: http://cgi.ebay.com/VINTAGE-SCAN-O-...ER_W0QQitemZ160413385243QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item255962021b Edited by The_Duke
03/19/2010 9:08 pm
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Can you blow up that picture a little more? I can't make out most of it.
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I just found your post while looking for more information about the scanomatic. My dad and friends invented and patented it around 1959. They used to sell them out of their garage. He recently passed away and we found one in his attic. They were invented in Mentor, OH.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Thanks for that! Been around a long time but don't remember this at all.
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That is very interesting.   to the Community! |
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Dunroven, Thanks for sharing your story. I'm sorry to hear about your Dad, and I hope you save and preserve that model and share what it meant to young (and old) collectors.
Duke
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Dunroven, My condolences to you about your father as well. I'm glad to know the back story on this as I'm still using mine.   |
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Resurrecting this ancient thread because I just found one of these on ebay and decided to take a chance. My grandfather used to have one and he would loan it to me to search rolls and bags of coins back in the 1960's. It's not something you would use on valuable coins, but for searching lots of circulated coins it's a pretty neat little gadget. Amazingly, the bulb still works. I'm hoping I can find an LED bulb that will work with this and have a few on the way to try. Wish me luck. The main negative is that even with a small 7 watt bulb it gives off a surprising amount of heat. I expect the old bulb won't last very long. It's probably 55-60 years old! The other negative is you have to be looking down. I don't suppose anyone knows of anything more modern that does the same job? LED lighting, a bigger coin hopper, stronger magnification, and an adjustable viewing screen would be on my wish list. I may have to see if I can jerry rig something with my USB scope.   |
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Thank you for sharing! |
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Pillar of the Community
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Great memories, I wonder what happened to mine from 50 years ago?
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I wonder about that for many things I had when I was 40+ years younger.  |
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