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Poll: Can you read the date on a cent with your naked eye?

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  • DickyBetzDickyBetz Posts: 3,825
    Yes and I dont even need a loupe to look at my coins either! Ahh, the power of being young.image
  • GemineyeGemineye Posts: 5,374 ✭
    Wow ..the time I cast my vote it was 50 / 50... There was a time I didn't need specs to read...................image
    4 votes....
    ......Larry........image
  • DollarsDollars Posts: 617 ✭
    Ofcourse I get into coin collecting when my eyesight is going bad!

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  • rmossrmoss Posts: 644
    I remember when I used to check for '72 DD Lincolns without use of a magnifying glass. Now I can't read the date on a cent without help.
    "Im not young enough to know everything."
    Oscar Wilde

    Collect for the love of the hobby, the beauty of the coins, and enjoy the ride.

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  • JJMJJM Posts: 8,039 ✭✭✭✭✭
    sucks
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  • DeputyPudDeputyPud Posts: 158
    I can still read the date, but mintmarks are getting nearly impossible.
  • pontiacinfpontiacinf Posts: 8,915 ✭✭
    no

    and its considerd the "over 40 syndrome"

    I used to be able to see dates and mm's unaided, then it seems like overnight as emril would say, "BAM"

    I can somewhat see them now, but only after adjusting distance between the coin and my eyes image

    thank god for the 8x

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  • OuthaulOuthaul Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • relayerrelayer Posts: 10,570 ✭


    << <i>Yes and I dont even need a loupe to look at my coins either! Ahh, the power of being young.image >>



    Dang, I can't even read the date on your signature cent. Is that a 26, 36 or 86 ?

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  • rmossrmoss Posts: 644


    << <i>no

    and its considerd the "over 40 syndrome"

    I used to be able to see dates and mm's unaided, then it seems like overnight as emril would say, "BAM"

    I can somewhat see them now, but only after adjusting distance between the coin and my eyes image

    thank god for the 8x

    edited for foot note >>



    I never miss an M&M's even bare eyed.
    "Im not young enough to know everything."
    Oscar Wilde

    Collect for the love of the hobby, the beauty of the coins, and enjoy the ride.

    Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
  • DickyBetzDickyBetz Posts: 3,825
    Relayer: Its a 1936.image
  • fivecentsfivecents Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I voted yes, unless it's a 1955DDO.image
  • mepotmepot Posts: 585 ✭✭✭
    Where's the "if I hold it in just the right light" option?image
    computer illiterate,becoming coin literate with the help of this forum.
  • AuldFartteAuldFartte Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭✭
    *sigh* ... not anymore image
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  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭
    My eyes are one of the few body parts I have that work well any more. My hair was mostly gone by 19, my knee shot and rebuilt at 25, but my eyes, even at 40, are still 20/15.
  • FairlanemanFairlaneman Posts: 10,424 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not a chance.....image

    Ken
  • tmot99tmot99 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭
    There's dates on coins?????image
  • carlcarl Posts: 2,054 ✭
    Not for the last 50 to 60 years now. Didn't someone say why is youth wasted on the young?
    Carl
  • BicentenBenBicentenBen Posts: 58
    Still in that youth range that allows such luxuries. In fact I'm happy to say I can read the micro printing on FRN's. I give it another 10 years and I'll be SOL.
    BicentenBen,

    "I say we slab everything in sight, it's the only way to be sure."
  • MrSpudMrSpud Posts: 4,499 ✭✭✭
    I can see the date, steps on nickels, bands on dimes and hairlines on coins fairly easily, but only if I look under or over my glasses and hold them 2 to 4 inches away from my eye. I can't see them if I look through my glasses or if I wear contact lenses. I'm so nearsigted that I can't see anything but blurriness more than a few feet away without my glasses on though. The eye doctor told me that I have the equivalent of a 5X lens without my glasses on at about 2 inches away from my eye. It makes it fun to cherry pick for full bands or for VAMS at coin shows. Some of the dealers think I am strange when I bend down with my face almost on top of the glass of their display cases looking under my glasses though.
  • CarlWohlforthCarlWohlforth Posts: 11,074 ✭
    Yes! I need glasses for distances...
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  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    Yes.
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  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,361 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Perhaps the better question would be... Can you read the caption of this thread as it appears on your computer screen with your naked eye?image

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  • ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭
    I still can, but it's getting harder and harder each year.

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  • HTubbsHTubbs Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭
    yes,and even see the doublingimage
  • richbeatrichbeat Posts: 2,288 ✭
    Ditto Shamika. image
  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,209 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I can read the microprint on bills with my naked eye image
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  • stmanstman Posts: 11,352 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Probably (never tried though) but even if I couldn't I wouldn't use a loupe. I say this because all the dealers tell us not to use a loupe because PCGS doesn't. Doesn't matter how old you are, or how your eye-sight is. So I listen to said dealers because they tell me I need to "see the forest through the trees." LMAO. And I know they're looking after my best interest when saying all this, and of course selling me a coin.
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  • MyqqyMyqqy Posts: 9,777 ✭
    Even though I'm only 35, I'm already very well versed in the pains and frustrations of a fading body..... image
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  • rec78rec78 Posts: 5,747 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sometimes- depends on lighting.
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,347 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm near sighted so I can focus up close. image



    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
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  • RegistryCoinRegistryCoin Posts: 5,117 ✭✭✭✭
    A friend, the day before yesterday, handed me a circ. '28 cent he found in change and asked me if it was an overdate, and I couldn't even tell the date. Dang, getting old is a real hassle. Had to break out the loupe, and since, I've found plenty of uses for it. image
  • drwstr123drwstr123 Posts: 7,040 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Crap! I sat on my glasses.
  • 1956Half1956Half Posts: 77
    What cent?
  • TACloughTAClough Posts: 1,598 ✭


    << <i>I can still read the date, but mintmarks are getting nearly impossible. >>

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  • eyoung429eyoung429 Posts: 6,374 ✭
    And then some!
    This is a very dumb ass thread. - Laura Sperber - Tuesday January 09, 2007 11:16 AM image

    Hell, I don't need to exercise.....I get enough just pushing my luck.
  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,797 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This is all very new to me. It never occurred to me that there were people who could not read the date on a penny! image
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  • LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,718 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I tend to find sufficient lighting to be more important than magnification in seeing really tiny stuff.
  • Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,274 ✭✭✭
    Yes, and I can spot an Accented Hair Kennedy at about 2-feet (you guys aren't getting enough vitamin A and D in your diet).
    "It's far easier to fight for principles, than to live up to them." Adlai Stevenson
  • 66Tbird66Tbird Posts: 2,858 ✭✭✭
    Yes, easy, But I know my time will comeimage
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  • morganbarbermorganbarber Posts: 1,821 ✭✭✭
    I'm 38 and am lucky to always have had good eyesight. I often will see a penny on the sidewalk and think to myself "Cool! A mintmarked cent!"
    I collect circulated U.S. silver
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,347 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I tend to find sufficient lighting to be more important than magnification in seeing really tiny stuff. >>



    Great point! Your $120 loupe doesn't do you much good without decent lighting.



    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • robertprrobertpr Posts: 6,862 ✭✭✭


    << <i>This is all very new to me. It never occurred to me that there were people who could not read the date on a penny! image >>



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  • BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I use a thong.

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  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,062 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No problem here. Still holding on to my 20/20. Don't know for how much longer though with the amount of time I spend looking at my half dimes through a loupe. I know some say "don't use a loupe" but I'd like to see them say that while trying to attribute a 15.5mm coin image
  • BOOKBOOK Posts: 223
    My eyes are just like my mind...image















    I seem to be losing both of them..image
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    My grandchildren. The heirs to my collection! (Just not to soon I hope)
  • CharlieBCharlieB Posts: 441 ✭

    Not anymore.
    "location, location, location...eye appeal, eye appeal, eye appeal"
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  • OKbustchaserOKbustchaser Posts: 5,499 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Depends on the cent.image

    No problem with this one

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    or this one

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    or even this one.

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    Just because I'm old doesn't mean I don't love to look at a pretty bust.
  • TorinoCobra71TorinoCobra71 Posts: 8,054 ✭✭✭
    Yep........... image

    TorinoCobra71


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  • BECOKABECOKA Posts: 16,961 ✭✭✭
    Yep, I can see the date and very often I can see hairlines also. image

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