Woah, that means than more than 20% of the specified weight (2.5 g for Barber dimes) was lost due to wearing down! So finally going back to my...
Also speculating here, but they wouldn't need to have weights in 1/8 grain increments. They could have just picked a sample of 8 coins and weighed...
Exactly! To be clear my annoyances with the chart posted previously are (a) that it is unsourced and hence hard to verify, and (b) that the...
Thanks for the chart! But as someone else commented on that other thread, I'm a little perplexed about where this data came from. Are these the...
Quick question: does anyone know how much weights tended to vary amongst genuine specimens of early 19th century coins (say from 1800-1830 or so)?...
Thanks for sharing! That's a nice quarter eagle, even if I, personally, would never trade a scarce copper for a similarly-valued gold piece. (Just...
Longtime reader, first-time poster. I see there are some other people here who are also interested in collecting die varieties of Draped Bust...
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