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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SPP Ottawa, post: 1696306, member: 39508&quot;]Here is my coin &#039;man-cave&#039;, where I do most sorting and grading.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]257831.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Essential items down in the man-cave, Bose sound dock and beer fridge, culls for eBay are in a holding zone on top of the fridge.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]257832.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Coin (formerly rock) shelf. I originally built this heavy duty shelving unit for rocks, placed in wooden trays. Now it is about 50% coins and 50% rocks, coins and coin show inventory on top, rocks on bottom.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]257833.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>At work, after hours, my research lab magically converts into a numismatic lab...</p><p><br /></p><p>High powered optical microscope with digital video camera</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]257834.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Bench-top portable XRF (probably the most powerful on the market today), sure helps with those off-metal errors and odd coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]257835.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And, the Pièce de Résistance... a scanning electron microscope. Sometimes, it IS important to see the flow of metal on those fields. I don&#039;t have a good photo of the SEM instrument, but I&#039;ll try to take one sometime soon...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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