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Message:: [QUOTE="mralexanderb, post: 383129, member: 7851"]I've got the QX5 and it does a good job at 10% and at 60%. At 200% you're looking at the porosity of the metal. Too much. My only couple of drawbacks are the light source and the fact you can't get a full picture of a cent or larger. Also it's not the best to take a photo of a coin in a slab as it tends to focus on the slab and not the coin. Maybe it's me.  All in all, I'm glad I bought it for the minute stuff I might want to see on a coin. In the first example the word "OF" was repaired on an 1857 Flying Eagle obverse die, and this is the result on the coin magnified by the QX5. I think this is at 60X mag. The next  coin is an 1898 Indian Head Cent MS63RB with a strike thru on the reverse. I believe this is at 60X mag also.  Bruce[/QUOTE]