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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 25169815, member: 27832"]Okay, it's still cool, but:</p><p><br /></p><p>That was an awful lot of <i>sliding</i> coins around. Also an awful lot of fiddling with the drawer, the scale, the diameter/thickness measurement. And it doesn't look to me like the conductivity measurement would work well with slabbed coins, unless they've got separate table entries for each coin in each type of slab. (It's also kind of a buzzkill to use the finely-machined brass knobs to dial in a figure that you have to <i>look up in an app</i>.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, if I had a small set of coin types that I had to check on a frequent basis, I'm sure I'd memorize the settings for them. But if I needed to check <i>gold</i> coins on a frequent basis, I'd probably spend a <i>little</i> more and pick up a Sigma. Not nearly as cool, but a lot more practical.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 25169815, member: 27832"]Okay, it's still cool, but: That was an awful lot of [I]sliding[/I] coins around. Also an awful lot of fiddling with the drawer, the scale, the diameter/thickness measurement. And it doesn't look to me like the conductivity measurement would work well with slabbed coins, unless they've got separate table entries for each coin in each type of slab. (It's also kind of a buzzkill to use the finely-machined brass knobs to dial in a figure that you have to [I]look up in an app[/I].) Now, if I had a small set of coin types that I had to check on a frequent basis, I'm sure I'd memorize the settings for them. But if I needed to check [I]gold[/I] coins on a frequent basis, I'd probably spend a [I]little[/I] more and pick up a Sigma. Not nearly as cool, but a lot more practical.[/QUOTE]
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