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Message:: [QUOTE="mikem2000, post: 1309005, member: 30574"]Doug,I have no idea, comparing silver and gold is like comparing apples to oranges. I have no buillion coins and no experience grading them, and with a specific gravity of gold being much greater than silver, the presumptions I used would be meaningless. I also have no gold buillion to test with for my own experience. While you didn't ask this question, I am going to answer it anyway, and that is how I came up with 2/10 gram bare minimum and possible much more, maybe 4/10 gram. First I want to say I was being conservative. I came up with those numbers based on two things. The first was an interesting post Winged Liberty wrote on wear and how it realted to loss of silver. His conclusion was AU/EF coins there is near 0% loss, F/VF 3% loss G/VG 6% loss. I found this matches close to my real life experience. Now for the second thing I did, since I have a bunch or RAW CBH (not exact, but close enough) They should come in at 13.48 grams. Most are XF/AU/UNC and they were close to to spot on with the heaviest being 13.51 and the lightes being 13.45. The lowest grades I had would be a few VF's and they came in at around 13.25 -13.30 The coin is question shows "apparent wear" that would indicate F at the very most, and even it you could argue VF, it should still be a minumum of 2/10 light. Mike[/QUOTE]