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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 7829105, member: 112"]Like the man said, the type of light you use is as, or even more, important as everything else is. Some types of light tend to hide some things and other types of light show you things. LED light is one of those types of light that tend to hide things. That's why it doesn't work well with cameras. Some types of light will hide color, others will hide hairlines, small contact marks and or light abrasions - all the kind of things that you need to see when looking at coins. For pretty much as long as people have been using lights to look at coins incandescent light has always been the recommended type of light to use because it shows you everything you need to see on a coin. But there's even a caveat with that, you have to use the right kind of incandescent light. There's what they call warm light and cool light in incandescent bulbs - and you don't want either one of them. Warm shows a yellowish cast while cool shows a bluish cast. What you want is an incandescent light that shows you the full color spectrum. And you don't want too much light, nor do you want too little, you need that middle ground that is just right - 75 to 100 hundred watts is best. And yes, incandescent light is better than natural light, sunlight, for even sunlight can hide some things because it produces too much glare.[/QUOTE]