Looking for suggestions on accurate inexspensive digital scale for weighing coins. Seen some on ebay for as low as $10 plus a low low shipping price of $15 (uuug). Any help welcome Thanks
US-300, it's stays calibrated, but only goes to 1/10 of a gram. Good enough for what I use it for. Take Care Ben
i had the same quest a while back .. but i needed the scale to weigh .001 i think it was (it might have been .01, its been so long i forgot)... i wanted to use it to weigh lincoln cents especially the 1982 series to see which ones were which ... but the scales that weighed to the range i wanted were very expensive.. i also got some weird looks from people and they would ask if i needed it for drugs .... i never did get they scale i needed .... if they prices have fallen that much, i may need to take another look at it...
Daggarjon - a cheaper method of finding out if a 1982 is a Zincoln or a Lincoln is to drop it on a hard surface and listen to it. Copper and Zinc have very different sounds. It doesn't take long to learn the sounds. That's how I did it. Now if only I could do a "sound test" on a 1960 to tell if a small date sounds different than a large date, I'd be in business. lol
i would prefer a method that doesnt include dropping my coins lol i know the 1982's will never be worth much more then the metal content, but stil...
I have some BU coins that I need to get accurate weight of because they may or may not be missing clad layer and thus weight may help lead to answer. So if an BU SBA $ weighs in at 8.1 grams (I think that is correct--correct me if wrong) and my coin that looks to be missing layer weighs less I might have sometin. Accurate and low cost (if there is such a thing) is what I need. Thanks and Happy Country Fried Steak with mash taters and green beans for dinner..yyyyyuuuuummmm. Plus pint of lager to wash it down
Be carefull. Not long ago I too wanted to find a scale that weighed in the .01 or .001 Gram range. I already had one from a long time ago but didn't trust it so I ended up getting a name of a company from one of the coin forums. I looked up that place, found a scale that I thought filled the bill but it was expensive, $97. Sent in for it, got it and was shocked. It was a cheap peice of junk made in China, not worth 10 cents, did not have some of the things on it as advertised, didn't work consistantly at all. I contacted the company and they said to send it back. The product must have been changed without them noticing it. Of course I must pay for additional shipping back and if I want a replacement, pay for shipping again. I finally found a reputable place in my area that sells all kinds of scientific materials, went there, bought a great scale, US made, weighs .001 Grams and cost one tenth of the one I got messed up with previously. Try Jewlry supply companies also. Main thing I feel is if your going to buy on line, check the return policy for who pays if the thing is a piece of junk. Contact seller to see if made in China or someplace like that. If you end up with a scale that is consistantly wrong, not much use.
You should check out www.digitalscalescenter.com. They have some scales that are reasonably priced. MJHoopStar
And just be careful they are not made in China. May state accurate but then probably only accurate in China.
For some reason I can't edit my post. Regardless, dropping any coin to hear a difference in sounds is rather irrisponsible to other collectors. Although some may not care about a few dinks and dents, some kid out there will end up with that dinked coin. Also, you'll find as you get older such slight differences in sound just are not possible. Sorry but I've heard this thing so many times and being old, it really gets me.
