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<p>[QUOTE="kanga, post: 3185826, member: 9270"]My experiences with scanning coins show:</p><p>-- scanners are made for flat items; a coin is not flat (actually someone else on this site said that first)</p><p>-- <b>some</b> scanners have their focus so tightly controlled to the glass surface that coins in slabs cannot be focused on</p><p>-- lack of lighting control results in less than desirable results</p><p><br /></p><p>But apparently there are scanners that <b>can </b>focus through slabs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kanga, post: 3185826, member: 9270"]My experiences with scanning coins show: -- scanners are made for flat items; a coin is not flat (actually someone else on this site said that first) -- [B]some[/B] scanners have their focus so tightly controlled to the glass surface that coins in slabs cannot be focused on -- lack of lighting control results in less than desirable results But apparently there are scanners that [B]can [/B]focus through slabs.[/QUOTE]
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