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Notice the Orlando FUN convention beginning today.
You saw her on Curse of Oak Island and the Jon Stewart show. One of Oak Island's most revered "experts," now she'll visit your home - for a price of course.
If you want to arrange for a home visit from Dr. Lori, here is her web site.
https://www.drloriv.com/Find-Values/In-Home-Visit
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Yesterday I mentioned using magnification for inspecting coins. There are a lot of good choices, You might be able to use something you already have.
Of course there are the obvious choices such as a magnifying glass or jewelers loop, which are always handy to have around the house. That is what I used years ago. Now I usually use something else.
Here is a good suggestion from SuperRick.
When it comes to looking at coins there is no reason to spend a lot of money if you have a smartphone. Go to Google Play and get the App Magnifying Glass Flashlight Pro! I have been using it for a while now to look at coins and meteorites, Try it out you will love it!
If you want to go through lots of coins quickly, I've found that a stand can be a big help. You can slide them under the viewer, quickly inspect them and then slide the next one under. A stand also provides stability.
Some of the guys that cherry-pick rolls, will buy rolls and go through hundreds of coins at a sitting. You might also have a pile of old coin finds to go through.
This kind of thing might be useful.
See http://forlights.com/Lighting/magnifier-lights/Electrix-7450.html
Even before I got into error coins, I always had an inexpensive Celestron digital microscope. It attaches to a computer or monitor through a USB port. I can go through a lot of coins quickly with that. I use an old laptop computer that isn't good for much of anything else to view coins and save coin photos. Since I don't use it for anything else, it makes a nice dedicated coin station.
The Celestron microscope has some short-comings. Lighting is very important for good coin photos. The eight LEDs on the microscope are not ideal for all situations, but they can be dimmed or turned off. Sometimes you'll want to change the angle of the lighting. You can use another light source for that.
Some people use a good camera with a good close-up lens for coin photos. Again lighting is critical.
Also, some scanners will make excellent coin pictures, but scanners tend to be pretty slow. You might try out your scanner and see how well it does with coins at high resolution.
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A cool front moved in and we're going to have a little increase in surf.
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Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net
