WOWZER!!!!!!!!!! New glasses today!!!

keets

I finally got off my lazy...........butt and had my eyes checked and prescription updated. I think it had been about 3-4 years which may seem bad although they are just for reading. The difference is noticeable and the changes stark when I can switch from the old specs to the new.

I haven't used my "new eyes" to look at any coins much yet but I'm sure it'll be more comfortable and clearer. One strange aspect is that the stigmatism in my right eye seems to have left. Even my girlfriend remarked that the lenses are different from one to the other. Also, my distant vision improved from 20-20 to 20-15!!! The doctor told me that my threshhold of focus is narrow at close reading distances, only about six inches. Tomorrow I'll have to look at some coins I'm familiar with and see what I see.

I wonder if this will assist my grading ability/progress and help me to cherry pick holdered undergrades and see doubling and steps clearer?? should have done it months ago!! Just think, for the price of a nice coin.............

Al H.

lordmarcovan

Wow, and all that time you thought the second coin in that picture was a Jefferson nickel, too.

MrSpud

I recently changed prescription also. Only mine made it worse for looking at coins. I have always been nearsighted and if I look at a coin close up without my glasses, or by looking over the top of the lenses, it looks magnified making the most minute details easy to see. Only the eye doctor recommended that I switch to contact lenses to improve my far vision and to use reading glasses on top of the contact lenses. Now, if I use the contact lenses, I can't even see the details on the coin without the reading glasses and with the reading glasses I can only focus on the coin if it is over a foot away which is too far away to see the details good. It works great for driving and reading and for looking at the computer, but for coins I'm still better off wearing my old glasses and looking over the top of the lenses.

boz

<< <i>Tomorrow I'll have to look at some coins I'm familiar with and see what I see. >>



If the difference is that noticable, couldn't it be that you only "think" you are familiar with these familiar coins?