Coin Roll Hunting Made Easy?

Does anyone know of a computer accessory for viewing coins that has a feeding tube where, for example, a roll of cents would feed one at a time into a viewer that shows the obverse and reverse on a computer monitor?

 

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No, thank goodness!

Chris

 

Better patent that Idea, before some one else.

 

While you're inventing it, add optical character recognition to alert you for key dates and image comparison with fuzzy logic to scan for varieties so it can run unattended ;-)

Heck, I'd buy one.

 

"Character recognition" would be nice if it would eliminate the number of people who post obvious PMD just because they have never seen one like it before. Unfortunately, we know that will never happen.

Chris

 

You can't patent ideas. But if he designs the machine he can patent that.

 

You take care of that part and I'll do the rest. Partners?

 

Just asking because I have 36,500 cents that were rolled prior to 1982. I had always thought it would be a good retirement project looking through the rolls for errors, etc., but now that I am retired it sounds like a lot of work.

 

A program like that may be good for you, but I don't think you realize how many "non-errors" are posted here on a regular basis just because people think they are going to "strike it rich with pocket change" even though they don't know the first thing about the minting process. With the sort of program you have envisioned, we would be inundated with nonsensical threads about worthless coins.

Chris

 

Gilbert, with that many cent, you need to get you some epoxy and w/ the cent make you a bathroom floor so you can look at them all when you go to the little boys room.

 

Complain, complain, complain.

 

I was thinking of covering the tractor. That would be a one-of-a-kind.

 

Yeah! Why don't I give them your e-mail address so they can contact you instead?

Chris

 

You can start here...

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/brown-1974-quarter.17271/page-2#post-2819532

Oy!

 

Temper, temper. When you get a bit older things won't bother you so much.
In checking your age it would appear that we are very close, so I retract that. Must be the air in southern FL.

 

No, it's the water.

 

Very seldom do I read those threads. Think of them as bad tv programming that is alleviated by changing the channel.

 

We have to make exceptions for those snowbirds who have to make the long drive from "down east".

Chris

 

Of course I could very well be a Gator-loving Floridian who summers "down east" to escape the heat and humidity.

 

That would be a very cool piece of coin technology. A piece of coin technology that would not be cool, however, is an automatic sorter, in which you plop the coins in, it finds errors, and finds coins to finish your collection. As well as anything else you might want to keep. Something like that would take the fun away from coin roll hunting. But your idea would keep the fun but take away the need for magnifying glasses. And that headgear magnification thing (I have one, but don't know what it's called).