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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 898561, member: 112&quot;]When it comes to loupes anything stronger than 5x is waste of time unless you are trying to establish tiny little variety diagnostics or authenticity.</p><p><br /></p><p>95% or all grading should be done with the naked eye. When grading magnification is only used to see hairlines or tiny imperfections for the ultra high grades. And nothing higher than 5x is used for this - ever.</p><p><br /></p><p>Higher magnification will tend to make you undergrade your coins and focus on tiny imperfections that don&#039;t really matter - except in the higher grades, meaning above 67.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now this is not just my opnion, this is the opinion of the recognized experts.</p><p><br /></p><p>And you want the largest field of view you can get. Hopefully so you can see the entire coin at the same time. Not one of the so called high quality loupes allows you to do this - not one.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Baush &amp; Lomb 5x Packette gives the best quality glass, the largest field of view, and one of the cheapest prices there is. Every collector on the planet should own one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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