

There is its stage for viewing your object, and attaching the microscope to its flexible stand. The Plugable works as a live streaming device direct to TV, a PC, Mac or smartphone. The microscope has a 2MP sensor and a maximum magnification of 250x-ideal for coin microscopy at lower magnification levels. The Plugable USB 2.0 Digital Microscope is the best cheap coin microscope available. There are some built-in clips for holding the object in place, but it’s doubtful you’ll need that with coins. Simply place the coin on the flat plastic stage. If you’re using the microscope for coins, then it’s best to use it with the stand. You can also use it as a handheld device by removing it from the stand, and holding it over the object you wish to view. Thereby allowing you to take videos and still images of your sample. Being digital, you see the objects on the screen of your PC or Mac. The Celestron is both a digital and handheld device. There is also a calibration ruler and Celestron’s MicroCapture Pro Software. The microscope has four parts-the arm, stage, microscope and shaft. If you’re viewing at high magnifications, the stand will offer a very stable platform. The adjustable LED lighting makes it very easy to provide the additional lighting you’ll need to view some objects. Compatible with both Windows and Mac (which is not something you can say with a lot of microscopes). Great for low power work and maneuverability. The excellent clear and sharp photos are down to the microscope’s five-element IR cut high-quality glass lens. The Celestron – 5 MP Digital Microscope Pro is the best USB microscope for coins for the price you’re going to pay.ĭo you want to take high-resolution images and video of your coins? If so, this is the microscope you need. Still, it does have a long working distance so you will be able to manipulate whatever you’re viewing.

The AmScope SE306R-AZ is a stereo microscope which means the magnification power is low.


There is a dioptric adjuster so you won’t need to use your glasses and for comfort, the lenses are fitted with eye guards. They thoroughly coat the optical glass lenses, which makes the images high resolution. They are equipped with a forward-mounted binocular viewing head at a 45-degree incline to help younger users. Even at 20x, the magnification is too much to have a field of view large enough.īut for viewing a coin’s mint marks or looking for imperfections then this is the overall best microscope for coins at this price.īuilt into the SE306R-AZ is both top and bottom 10W halogen lighting, so it’s usable for any sample you can place on the stage of the microscope. The Amscope isn’t going to work well for looking at a complete coin. The AmScope SE306R-AZ has an excellent range of magnification for checking out your coins, using the 20x to look at more or less all of the coin and 80x if you want to see in more detail.
