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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jcuve, post: 715894, member: 13945&quot;]To each his or her own.</p><p><br /></p><p>One has to be able to search with a loupe, as stated by someone else, if you are away from home looking at coins in a shop or a show (maybe out of town), whatever - yes. But if you are comfortable using a scope at a lower setting, and it works, so be it. </p><p><br /></p><p>Once I figured out how to effectively use my binocular microscope (which lens, what type of light source etc.) for my variety searches, I started using it all the time. It is so comfortable (for me). On a 20x setting (where I can see the whole coin), similar to Jim, I have 10 coins on a black piece of mat board that I push along - a search of 3-5 seconds on the obverse, then carefully flipping the coins looking for rotated dies, searching the reverse (which takes more like 5-10 seconds). </p><p><br /></p><p>What is more important then the tools (which I feel are personal), is to know what and how to search for varieties and errors. One really needs to figure out what a RPM looks like, what different classes of doubled dies appear like, as well as Split Plate Doubling, MD, DDD, MADs and a whole host of other anomalies. </p><p><br /></p><p>I wish everyone success in their searches - no matter how you do them...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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