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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2536542, member: 112&quot;]The glass you pick depends on what you want to do with it. For quick looks at any coin I&#039;ve always used a 3x or 4x round glass like you find in the drugstores. Highest recommended magnification for grading is 5x, and for that I&#039;ve always used a Bausch &amp; Lomb 5x Packette like you find here - <a href="http://www.jpscorner.com/magnifiers-and-loupes.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.jpscorner.com/magnifiers-and-loupes.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.jpscorner.com/magnifiers-and-loupes.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>If varieties and errors are your thing, or you have to ability to authenticate yourself, then you need a 10x, mine is a lighted example. And if you can&#039;t see it with a 10x, well 99% of the time you don&#039;t &quot;need&quot; to see it.</p><p><br /></p><p>edit - What a lot of folks fail to understand is that magnification is rarely used for grading purposes. Typically 95% of grading should be done with the naked eye. Magnification only for grades like 69 or 70.</p><p><br /></p><p>The normal purpose of magnification is to see, identify, and confirm problems or issues a coin may have that are hard to see or not visible to the naked eye.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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