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Greatest thing ever for working with small coins

LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,719 ✭✭✭✭✭
If you like small coins like half dimes, 3 cent pieces, dimes etc, and you're turning into an old fart (like me) get a set of 1.75 or 2.0 diopter reading glasses.

Dagnabbit, half dimes look like half dollars (of course my thumb looked like the south end of a north bound rhino image )

Those things were made for examining coins. I wish I'd discovered those about 5 or 10 years ago.

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  • SeattleSlammerSeattleSlammer Posts: 10,037 ✭✭✭✭✭
    (of course my thumb looked like the south end of a north bound rhino )

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  • MisterBungleMisterBungle Posts: 2,308 ✭✭✭

    "...get a set of 1.75 or 2.0 diopter reading glasses."
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    Hell, I have to have them that strong just to read!!

    ~


    "America suffers today from too much pluribus and not enough unum.".....Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

  • RayboRaybo Posts: 5,331 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>"...get a set of 1.75 or 2.0 diopter reading glasses."
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    Hell, I have to have them that strong just to read!!

    ~ >>



    DITTO!

    This is nothing new to me, welcome to spectacle club lanlord!
    (the $10 specs from Walgreens are my choice, I can have 10 pair around the house and not worry about losing any)

    Ray
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,664 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Been there, done that. It makes a difference. And reading glasses are cheap. Got mine at the Dollar General for smoething like four or five bucks.

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  • Cam40Cam40 Posts: 8,146
    cant see a date on any coin at all now without glasses
    and sometimes not even then.
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    thats why i got some...smoe cheapo magnifing glass at the dollar store to keep in the car
    and home.
    image

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