Help!

As you have decided to go the dedicated macro lens way :-
The lens will need to be 1:1 capable.
Tamron 90mm (Value for money choice}
Tokina 100mm
Sigma 105mm
Not to forget Nikons own glass which will cost
more than the body you have chosen.
If you choose a Canon body the same lenses apply.

I would like to be able to photograph all coins including zooms on error coins. Found a nikon d60 with the 55:200mm(think I am saying that right) found the macro hood and shade. Going to buy a few filters.. My current camera just does not have the ability to manual focus or it would be perfect. Canon SX50HS I have taken some very nice cameo photos. It just doesn't have that zoom on a coin and image the ultra finne details. I am also building a copy table. It should be a good setup. I am just concerned with lens choice. I have spent about the last 18 hours reading on cameras and lenses. I am definitly not going to jump blindly on this. Its seems as though. One could definitly over spend. But I would like the camera to be universal. I'm not a take the camera everywhere kind of person. And as bad as this sounds I dont want to do entry level would like a legit system for years of enjoyment. Have gotten some great advice and read some great threads.

That will require multiple lenses. "Normal" lenses - like that 55-200 - aren't designed for Macro work and can't focus close enough to a coin to make for good imaging.

1:1 lenses can focus closely enough so the coin fills the complete sensor. This is too much magnification for, say, a Morgan - a 38mm coin on a 22.3x14.9 sensor is about 0.42x magnification - but you'll need it for a Dime or Cent. The bare minimum magnification for useful coin imaging is about 0.5x.

Any new camera you buy will be outdated in less than a year, and you may be quite upset at the amount you paid for it and the features you're now missing. It's nice to strive for the best, but at this point you probably don't know what your technique for coin photography will be or thus what is really important to you.

I said this in another post, but at this point I know only of a few cameras that are truly state of the art for coin photography, and they are all Canon models. If you're interested in doing details it is especially important to go this direction. With Nikon you can indeed get excellent images at higher magnification, but you will need to use flash, which limits your lighting flexibility. Canon's EFSC, which is fully functional only on a few models, gives vibration-free exposure with continuous lighting.

EFSC is Electronic First Shutter Curtain. These days, cameras snap the shutter by drawing a 2-piece curtain over the sensor, rather than the "aperture snapping open and closed" picture we typically have in mind for cameras.

EFSC means that, essentially, Canon substitutes "turning the sensor on" for "pulling a curtain over a live sensor." Nikon lacks this feature, and Ray was easily able to demonstrate significant gains in sharpness with it.

None of the lenses packed with a T3i are going to be appropriate for coin photography. You need something whose magnification capability is no less than 0.5x and preferably 1x, which is well beyond the ability of the average carry lens.

If you're looking at Canon, nothing older than the 450D/Rebel XSi (or 1000D/Rebel XS, our "cheap camera of choice). EFSC was implemented in that generation.

OK, tell us what you bought, we won't criticize. And let's see some pictures! Taken WITH the camera/lens, not OF it.

Most likely your macro lens won't do the zooms on error coins you said you wanted, so you'll need to figure something else out. Knowing what you bought will help determine what you need to make the higher magnification shots happen...Ray