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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 7407170, member: 19463"]...or BAD?</p><p>There are few things that are ALWAYS true but one is that it is a mistake to expect any one answer to apply ALWAYS. When I was young, my eyeglass prescription was much, much stronger than it is now. Without glasses, my eyes focused sharply on things a couple inches from my face. Were it not for glasses, about all I could have been trained to do would be very close work like die engraving (with or without the aid of lenses). Today, without glasses, I focus well on things about a foot from my face (a great improvement). My career as a die engraver would be shot! Some engravers may have used lenses, gems, water beads or whatever. Others may have been very nearsighted and needed help walking across the room. If you can prove the answer for one does not prove the answer for all. Did ALL coin dies start with a layout circle around a central dot? Certainly not. We can prove some used these aids but there are coins with uneven alignments. Were they done without aids or were those aids just used poorly so the results were poor?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 7407170, member: 19463"]...or BAD? There are few things that are ALWAYS true but one is that it is a mistake to expect any one answer to apply ALWAYS. When I was young, my eyeglass prescription was much, much stronger than it is now. Without glasses, my eyes focused sharply on things a couple inches from my face. Were it not for glasses, about all I could have been trained to do would be very close work like die engraving (with or without the aid of lenses). Today, without glasses, I focus well on things about a foot from my face (a great improvement). My career as a die engraver would be shot! Some engravers may have used lenses, gems, water beads or whatever. Others may have been very nearsighted and needed help walking across the room. If you can prove the answer for one does not prove the answer for all. Did ALL coin dies start with a layout circle around a central dot? Certainly not. We can prove some used these aids but there are coins with uneven alignments. Were they done without aids or were those aids just used poorly so the results were poor?[/QUOTE]
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