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<p>[QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 1892646, member: 12789"]I have a now ancient HP 4370 that I like to use for coins, because I have tweaked it to get a bit of a 2D image - ie getting some of the edge of the coin. The scanner is old enough that I had to convert the software for it to 64bit for my now laptop. I have also had to take it apart a couple of times to work on it and clean the inside when it got hazy on the glass. I have a similarly aged Canon scanner as my reserve backup.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.scottishmoney.net/rossiya/images/images/sssr5kopek1924.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.scottishmoney.net/rossiya/images/images/sssr501924.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>You see the thing that older scanners can do that newer ones cannot - is scan US paper money - all the newer ones have internal chips that render paper money scans useless.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 1892646, member: 12789"]I have a now ancient HP 4370 that I like to use for coins, because I have tweaked it to get a bit of a 2D image - ie getting some of the edge of the coin. The scanner is old enough that I had to convert the software for it to 64bit for my now laptop. I have also had to take it apart a couple of times to work on it and clean the inside when it got hazy on the glass. I have a similarly aged Canon scanner as my reserve backup. [IMG]http://www.scottishmoney.net/rossiya/images/images/sssr5kopek1924.jpg[/IMG] [img]http://www.scottishmoney.net/rossiya/images/images/sssr501924.jpg[/img] You see the thing that older scanners can do that newer ones cannot - is scan US paper money - all the newer ones have internal chips that render paper money scans useless.[/QUOTE]
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