Portable light at shows
krueger
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Does anyone use or has seen someone using a portable light for viewing coins at a coin show, where lighting is bad
and dealers are spotty with having table lights. On rare occasions I have used a small multi LED flashlight (great for banknote viewing).
I have read some experts say take your own light to be consistent in the viewing/grading of the coins you are examining.
Some like to use small tensor lamps apparently.
This could be a hassle with plugging in at each table.
Anyone seen this before?
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In other words why worry about viewing where there is bad lighting.
Hoard the keys.
Maybe you want one of those miner's head lamps.
Some of the newer loupes have both LED and UV lights (useful for detecting puttied gold).
I am considering trying this one ...
<< <i>Maybe you want one of those miner's head lamps. >>
I've seen variations of those that include magnification goggles in use at shows.
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They even make a UV model which may be useful for checking banknotes.
The bad part is that it's an LED, which I find to be too harsh on coins, and it wipes out much of the color. But you will see everything wrong with the coin under this light.
I'm still looking for a satisfactory small battery operated incandescent or halogen lamp...
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<< <i>There's a local dealer who uses a halogen flashlight like this one when walking the floor.
You need three hands---one to hold the coin, one to hold the loupe, and one to hold the light.
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<< <i>Add a camera and you could have a "Cam-a-Loupe" (Registered copyright of the Loupe De Loop Corp.) >>
Hoard the keys.
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<< <i>Maybe you want one of those miner's head lamps. >>
How often do you see people put a flashlight under their arm or in their teeth or prop it up against something to shine light on their target? However, I like the LED equipped loupes posted in this thread for coin show browsing. Everything else gets the head lamp.