Adafruit USB Microscope And Stand

Tootallious, that's what I mean


You can cut as you need


Put your coin according to your camera lens, put the box and then you can control lighting and setup focus.

Great use of a Yogurt Can....

"lacto-numismatics" ?

;-)

Murty, well, my setup is different, but in the case of lighting no matter how it look.

Tootallious, I have several. Above is 8MP USB for the $80. Now I use $150 16MP USB+HDMI camera.
The stand separatelly cost about $80, but it is with very fine tuning up to 0,02mm precision.
It is not necessery for coin imaging if you no need field of view less than 1mm.
Also it's very flexible about optics. I can use any from microscope and enlarger lens to FF camera and industrial lens due to C-mount thread on cameras. Above is my experiment with two microscope lenses in line for $25 each.
You can see there some results
http://goccf.com/t/280117&whichpage=1

I have an old post here:
http://goccf.com/t/243488
That shows how to use the lens from a laser pointer and an iphone (an old 4S) to get amazingly closeup pics. Its fast, costs 1.00 for the laser pointer (about AA-battery diameter, not the smaller AAA_diameter ones), and you can see form the pics I posted that it has AMAZING magnification.

Here is as close as I can get on the letter "U" in TRUST on a 1964 DDO Half



The system can be improved upon, obviously.

I did make a stand for this. I used an iphone to tripod clamp that hold the iphone (and plastic with lens under it) by a spring loaded clamp.

I mounted the clamp horizontally to a small block of wood by using a bolt. The block of wood is raised and lowered by turning a bolt positioned above the block of wood (and attached to it).