Microscope / Coin Photography

Being a trinocular, you can attach the Nikon to the scope, and with tethering software you can search your coins on your computer's monitor and shoot images of staggering quality from mouse and keyboard at your leisure. Sound like a decent solution?

No, the whole purpose of a trinocular scope is to physically attach a camera to it. You don't have three eyes; that's what the third eyepiece is there for.

The Amscope-designed adapter is expensive - $90 - but I should think there would be cheaper out there somewhere. The camera attaches to the scope, you connect it to your computer via USB and from that point on you do everything from mouse and keyboard, and view the image on your monitor. Tethering software is separate; others will have to respond with the best such software for Nikon as I'm no expert there.

For the record, we teach a certain system of photography here involving a tethered dSLR, bellows and duplicating lenses & microscope objectives. It gives the capability to shoot anything from a full slab picture to microscopic detail images in professional quality, at a total cost including the camera of less than your AmScope's price, around $400 or so.