I spent hours

Viewing coins with this scanner in the 60's and 70's. I came across it spring cleaning. The last day of spring, but I got it in before summer.

 

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I bet half the guys on this forum has used it when they were in school... lol.

 

What the heck? How does it work?

 

They got one of those on ebay for 9.99.

 

You can put a stack of coins in the tube and slide the coin under the magnifier to view. To flip sides you just push it in a little further and pull back. Then pull out to eject the coin and load another.

 

That is very cool. It reminds me of the old Panavision viewfinder I had as a kid. Someone should invent the "Tone-O-Matic" for coins TC

 

TC, does this resemble it

 

What kind of magnification does it have ?

 

Great job ! I still have the garage, 2 bedrooms and 3 closets to go. Finally got the pantry done though. Aiming for Spring 2012 0r 13 now.

Nice find too !

 

Yes, I had that same one. I also had a single slide pana-vue with a collection of 35mm slides of space images from the mood landing. TC

 

I am not sure, no more than 3X and maybe just 2X.

 

My kids had those. :smile

 

I have wondered about the flipping action. Someone had mention on a different forum that a metal flat spring was deformed and the released, flipping the coin. Does it leave a mark on the coin?

 

Your stuffing your coins into a View Finder?

Ruben

 

No, it slides up a plastic ramp and flips over. Never touches anything but plastic. Put a towel under it to catch the ejected coin.

 

A long time ago I would buy $20.00 of rolled cents from the bank and run them through this viewer.

 

When I was in school, the CPU would have required a small building.

 

Now you could run 1968 NASA from your Ipod. :kewl:

 

Your kidding. Your IPOD is equal to 5,000,0000 NASA's from 1968.

Ruben

 

That's the truth. I remember the films of "Braniac", the government IBM computer that towered over the operators and required a huge room. Guess the Japanese started the "miniaturization" and got us going.