Need advice for coin scanning

[Money Pitt-migration]

I am have to buy a new scanner in order to scan slabbed coins. What is the group reccomend?

I am on a budget....

I know to look for CCD technology, but I can't find where they are distinguished from one another on specs.

Thanks

[MAULEMALL]

I have an HP5470c.4 years old and I can even run neg's .

 

Scanners are cheap compared to what they were.

 

Shop around and ask questions.

[Prethen]

As far as I know, only HP scanners can do a good job at scanning slabs. I've tried Canon, Epson, and others with very poor results. Although, my Canon does an extremely good job at scanning circulated, raw coins.

[Larry Dreher]

I have a Epson scanner and the results are acceptable. Take a look at this registry entry for an example:

 

Scan Sample

[Money Pitt-migration]

What model is it?

Thanks for the reply.

[Larry Dreher]

I'll need to check. I don't remember the exact model but it's a couple of years old and not made any more.

[Brucec-migration]

I have an HP scanner about three years old does not scan coins good but I also have a one year old Epson 5200 muti-printer the scanned on that does excellent job.

 

Have a Kodak 850 good digital camera but i can't get the 20X zoom to take a good picture of coins. But that 5200 Epson printer with the scanner works very good.

[TomB]

My Visioneer is the One Touch 8100 and I have had it for about six years, so they have no doubt moved onto later models. The scans I take are 300dpi and I do not tilt the coin, I simply lay it flat on the surface. Examples are below.

 

Here is an example scan of an MS coin in a slab-

Here is the same coin taken as a digital photograph-

Here is an example scan of a circulated coin that is raw-

[Money Pitt-migration]

What photo equipment do you use?

It is amazing how diffrent the two are.

Thanks

[pendragon1998]

Some of you should consider copying your replies from this thread into the following one, which I hope will become a useful resource:

 

Post a scanned coin picture and list the scanner model

[brwnprkns]

I have a Conon Powershot A620. It takes great pictures, but I have to shrink them so much to post that they don't look as good. I shrink them in MS Paint or Image Forge, both as a JPEG file. Yesterday I was able to post a picture that was 500x375 and today I had to shrink to 250x187 to make it fit. It seems the Registry, The Journal, and the chat boards all have different limits as to how large a file can be. How can I make my pictures fit without shrinking and loosing quality?

I'have seen some very nice looking pictures on all sites, most look bigger that mine.

Here's an example of Image Forge

[TomB]

The digital image of the Morgan was taken with a Nikon D70 using a macro lens.