$20 Bill Under Microscope

Microscope World recently captured images of the US $20 bill under a microscope. Using the Motic SMZ-168 stereo zoom microscope on the lighted post stand, the magnification was set to 5x to capture these images.

The Moticam MC1000 digital microscope camera was threaded onto the microscope c-mount adapter. The camera includes software and allowed us to view a live image on the computer monitor prior to capturing and saving the image.

The images turned out crisp and clear.

Coin Collecting Microscopes

Coin collecting requires good optics and low magnification in order to fit the entire coin in the field of view. You can view a variety of coin collecting microscopes here.

These images were all captured with the SMZ-168 stereo microscope with 5x eyepieces. The MC1000 microscope camera was mounted over the 5x eyepiece in order to have a lower magnification. This same result could also be obtained using the 10x eyepieces and a 0.5x auxiliary lens.