Noodling finds

[Fulvio]

I thought it was a fairdinkum hair at first

Couldn't be. If it was struck through, it would have been impressed into the coin. Being raised it has to be a die scratch or crack. I vote crack, given the shape, though it is an odd spot for it.

[Unicorn]

:i_agree: with McDuck, looks like a crack to me.

[ausjack]

:laugh2: nah nah I got me all wrong, I thought it was a real hair for a sec and then it was hold on it's shinny and yeah Uni been getting some good finds and the best thing is that I don't show much of what I find :winkextra:

[Fulvio]

I thought it was a real hair for a sec

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh,, NOW I get it! Sorry, but I reckon that's hilarious. :angel:

[ausjack]

mate I don't screw around, I've been going thru heaps of fifties looking for bubble so here an idea of what I do, I find on average 3 per $200 bag and some times none but when you take that I have given about 20 away and had a few sold for me on feebay, thank you very much AC :hi: and I have over 100 and still looking for more, if I could get more coin I would as I have travelledto yamba to pick up old bank notes and swap coin and I have 5 different bank accounts so i can swap easier :good: I even go thru that much that they have started marking the bags as I say searched that so they're pretty good except being small they don't carry much mney so they order it in for me, they are starting to know me but it's taken long enough. Oh and the other day went thru $600 in fifties in one day and I can tell you that's a mission and a half

[Goldseeker]

I go through 1000 fifties each day of three or four days a week.

[ausjack]

man how in the hell do you do it GS as I found 1200 in one day really took it's toll on me and my poor little peepers, and I need a better loupe as well as mine is just an elcheapo from the markets but it does the job, it's just a little small and I'd like a big one with a halo light, so we better win lotto :good:

[Fulvio]

I find on average 3 per $200 bag

Well, when I dug out my bubbles to show Goldy, I only had one type 1 (though I know I've got a couple more stashed somewhere), vs 17 type 2 and a dozen or so type 3. That's not good from about 20 sacks. This sack I picked up on the way to Goldy's produced zero bubbles, which was all the more galling.

I've slowed down a bit at the moment due to the domestic crisis, but before this I was going through about 6 or 7 sacks a week, of whatever denomination takes my fancy. And back in the day I used to get through $10-50k a week, mostly in dollars. But back then I had time, space and better eyesight.

[Goldseeker]

I pass all my coins, regardless of denomination, under a jewellers desk lamp that has a flouro light around a 15cm magnifying glass.   I normally look only for the most obvious error/variety using this method.

However, the past couple of days, I have been using my x2 and x4 Microscope to look at the 2012 50c Pieces for the Type 1,2 and 3 Circles and other viarieties as Fulvio has stated in another topic.

If I find a variety/error with the jewellers light, I then examine it with the Microscope to see that the error/variety is in fac t a variety/error.

Here are photos of the two apparatus I speak of.

[ausjack]

don't know about the microscope but I'd love one of those lights but with big magnification, nice set up GS :good:

[Fulvio]

I'd love one of those lights but with big magnification

Not gonna happen... the way optics work, lenses get smaller as the magnification goes up.

[ausjack]

hubble

[Fulvio]

hubble

Special case. Its more electronics than optics. Which is how they managed to fix it.

I'm not saying you can't get high magnifications, but the lenses get ridiculously large and expensive very quickly.

[ausjack]

come on Mc scruge, open up the money bin for me, gee it's christmas ya know and I only want a little one for noodling unless you want to hook me up with a satallite :laugh2:

[Fulvio]

:laugh2: