Did you need glasses before you started collecting coins or afterwards?

razorface1027

The more time I spend looking through the damn glass at my coins, the more my eyes worsen.

How about you?

Crackout

Collecting coins, needing eye-glasses, and turning 40 all happened simultaneously!!

nemesis93457

<< <i>Collecting coins, needing eye-glasses, and turning 40 all happened simultaneously!! >>




Ditto......................................

ss350camaro

Both

mgoodm3

neither.

Bikingnut

I wore glasses when I started collecting. I had lasik in March of 2000, which is the best thing I've ever done. But, I'm starting to realize that eventually I'll need reading glasses. At some time, my arms won't be quite long enough to hold the coin far enough away to see it.

Russ

I've needed glasses since I was a kid, so it would be long before I started collecting. Weird thing is, though, my distance eyesight has improved slightly over the last few years. But, with my glasses on, I can no longer see anything within about two feet clearly.

Russ, NCNE

Wolf359

When I was a kid, I sit in bed at night and read science fiction under poor lighting. Mom and Dad warned me, but I didn't listen. Did a lot of that other thing too they warn you about causes blindness, but again I didn't listen. High School started and I couldn't see the board. So I got glasses. Slight downhill change in the 30 years since, not too bad. Guess they were half-right!

lordmarcovan

I used to have better-than-average vision for small objects, and I still don't wear glasses, but now I find I can no longer see certain mintmarks and things with the naked eye.

I recently bought my first pair of reading glasses (1.5X), and I have to use a loupe on dimes, now. *Sigh*

I turn forty next year. Guess it was bound to happen, sooner or later. I'm sure there'll come a time when glasses will no longer be an optional thing for me.

mrcommem

I had glasses before I started coin collecting. I just can't see with them anymore. The combination of almost 50 years of age, coin collecting, and working on my N-gauge model railroad has really ruined my eyesight.

razorface1027

Yup...it's pitiful around my house. I have to call one of my children in to read the MM on a coin when I can't find my loupe. My eyes got worse by delving back into coins.

LanLord

I can easily see as well as Stevie Wonder, always could.

Collecting hasn't ruined my eyesight, but sure hasn't made it any better.

aem4162

before