Any "older collectors" with new glasses? Are you thinking about it?
bennybravo
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I'm 51, always had pretty dang good 20-20 plus eyesight. I did notice the last couple of years that street signs looked a little blurrier to me, and finally went in to see an optometrist. I now have a pair of glasses. I've always incorporated jeweler's loupes and felt I did alright , but man, what a difference! Anyone else reckoning with their eyesight's maybe somewhat diminishing returns?
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Same for me, no longer 20/20 . Got a pair that is a progressive lens with increased magnification ( better than reading glasses) for the ability to look at coins better 😀
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I'm 64 and need readers for up close. Some thing tells me I'll need more. Hmmm, I'm just happy to have what I have 🙂
My insurance covers new glasses every two years. Not working like they use to.
Don’t worry, it’ll get worse.
My eyesight is so bad I probably went through over a dozen different pairs of glasses and eye surgeries over the last 5 years or so.
Mr_Spud
I need bifocal a few years ago and went with progressive lenses. Works well for normal things but I tend to take them off for close up activities like coins.
I just had cataract surgery and the difference is amazon.
I can see fine now while driving, but I need readers now.
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Just came from our coin club Banquet, we were given uncirculated quarters when we entered of all different years mostly in the 1950's one gentleman at our table replied I cannot read the date and I told him it was just "Bad Lighting" but I think he would be a Canidate for a pair of glasses, just saying!
@Twobitcollector said: I just had cataract surgery and the difference is amazon.
With advancements in medicine this is moving to be the new normal.
My Sister has worn glasses for almost her entire life, I have no memory of her not wearing them. I took her in for cataract surgery two weeks ago, I'll be taking her Monday for her other eye. The procedure we all grew up watching our elders go through entailed simply removing the cataract. Today the entire lens is removed and replaced. For my sister the change was dramatic. When she went to her follow-up exam she had been restored to 20-20 vision although I think she said she might need assistance with reading.
I asked her when the cosmetic surgery would happen for those two indentations on the side of her nose!!
I just got a new prescription. I need to go get new glasses.
Can you say Fuchs’ Corneal Dystrophy?
PM me if you can, that can hamper coin viewing.
1TwoBits
I wore bifocals for over 40 years and over time noticed I had to sit about a foot in front of my computer screen to read anything clearly. Just after my 80th birthday in August I had cataract surgery on one eye and had the other done in September. What a difference. Even after the first eye may computer screen was clear as a bell up to six feet or more away. Reading newspapers, magazines and maps (I know, what's a map) at arms length, fine print on medicine bottles same thing. I no longer need glasses for driving and last eye test my vision was 20 / 20 in both eyes. As they say in the detergent commercials "whites are whiter and colors are brighter". Why did I wait so long.
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I had superb vision. In my 20's I got floaters, in my '30's my arms got too short and it was caused by my eyes, In my 40's the fluid in my eyes hardened up and moved, In my '50's I could ne longer focus on anything within 20'. In my '60's I got a little astigmatism in one eye. I finally got my first pair of glasses now that I'm in my '70's and am relearning what the world looks like and not liking everything I see. I knew it had gone nuts but it even looks a little nuts. Mebbe I need new glasses.
Many years ago I traded a few coins with a man I thought was old ('80ish) who had always had good vision and didn't even use reading glasses. In my '20's I'd paid good money to get the fluid pumped out of my eyes and filtered. Ah, the good old days before you had to get used to so many things.
Maybe that's nature's way. Once you catch a woman eyes aren't as valuable any longer. Archie Bunker,. "The Meat Head", took one look at Edith and threw his glasses out.
All I know is it's difficult to view the details on small cents without help anymore. I used to damn near be able to see minor doubled dies without a loupe. Now, I'm lucky to get the date right.
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I’ve always had terrible vision from the age of 8 onwards. I have progressive bifocals and multi focal contact lenses. This last year, even with a new prescription everything is blurry. Consultation for cataract surgery in February. Long ways away but I can’t wait to not have to squint to see anything.