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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IdesOfMarch01, post: 2273844, member: 39084&quot;]My advice about magnifiers would be the same as my dealer provided to me -- a good quality, large field 5X magnifier is the most versatile and useful for ancient coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>You can certainly spot bronze tooling with 5X or less, and any detail for which you need higher magnification is probably not going to be a factor in valuing the coin.&nbsp; Higher magnification might uncover smaller scratches that rarely, if ever affect a coin&#039;s desirability.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s possible, though, that if you&#039;re worried about bronzes that might have bronze disease, higher magnification would be useful.&nbsp; I don&#039;t have a lot of direct experience with such coins so maybe someone on this site with more expertise could chime in about the usefulness of higher magnifications in these circumstances.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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