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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Digital scales for coins.
To check coin weight in grams, what is the upper unit range? 10 GRAMS? 20 GRAMS
and what is the lower unit RANGE?
.01 or .001
Any brand names offered will be great
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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A scale that has a capacity of 100g or 200g and a readability of 0.01g should be sufficient for the vast majority of coins. Two brands that I think have been mentioned in the past are American weight and Digiweigh. The one I have is a generic 200g x 0.01g scale and it works just fine. Here is a link to just one out of thousands listed on ebay that can fit your needs. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pocket-100g...em337827eef0 |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4085 Posts |
I have that exact scale and it works great
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Moderator
 United States
23522 Posts |
I, too, use that exact scale.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
814 Posts |
Yeah I just use a generic scale also it works great. It may sound funny but I bought it at a local smoke shop.......they have lots of different types of digital scales...im sure most smoke shops do
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Valued Member
Israel
423 Posts |
I have a kitchen scale made in china that weighs from 0.1gm to 2KG it works very well for all my coins and medals the brand name is ROSO PRO and the cost here in israel was about $30 US
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Pillar of the Community
United States
946 Posts |
All head shops and actually most convenience stores sell digital scales,bags and everything else that looks like we are a drug dealer,but in fact its for our numismatics lol.
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United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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For a few extra dollars go for one that goes down to .001grams. My scale for weighing single coins measures in .001g (milligram) units. It has a 50g capacity which is sufficient for almost all single coins. I wouldn't go with a 20g capacity scale. I suppose 100g would be better, but I didn't see any reasonably-priced 100g X .001g (100000 step) scales when I got mine. I also have a 5.5kg x 0.1g (55000 step) scale for weighing bars, multiple coins, or other stuff. Note: I don't have the accurate calibration weights needed to really get .001g accuracy with my scale. |
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Moderator
United States
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.001g resolution is too much to pay for; production tolerances make it irrelevant. Shoot for .01g.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
1804 Posts |
Much thanks to all for the help.
Just ordered a .01 X 100 gram
Will use it to check any weird Ikes.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7390 Posts |
Head shops are a good place for .01g scales but they have a HUGE markup. Just go to the bay and weight a day  |
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Posted 03/29/2015 8:13 pm
