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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1309086, member: 112&quot;]There&#039;s a couple of things here. But first the coin I posted. That coin is at best low VF condition, but yet it only lost 3 one thousandths of a gram in weight. And that&#039;s not specific to just bullion coins. It works the same way with all coins, gold, silver, copper, even nickel.</p><p><br /></p><p>You see coins don&#039;t lose much weight with wear. And it doesn&#039;t matter what the metal is. Yes softer metals wear faster, as they wear faster the grade drops faster too so it all equals out. </p><p><br /></p><p>I think where people get confused, or call it having inaccurate expectations is you wish, is when a coin with wear weighs a certain amount less than the spec. But they forget that the spec is only a guideline, the mint had weight tolerances.</p><p><br /></p><p>So that half dollar that should weigh 13.5 grams, it actually could have weighed anywhere from 13.365 grams to 13.635 grams - fresh from the mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>So if the coin is on the light side when weighed and it is in VF condition, a good deal of that weight loss is probably due to the planchet being light when the coin was minted. Not due to weight loss due from wear. You see what I mean ?</p><p><br /></p><p>Now gold coins are actually one of our best indicators of this because with gold coins the mint always took a lot more pains and were a lot more careful than they were with silver or copper to make sure that not only the planchets, but the struck coins themselves, had the correct weight. So when you weigh a worn gold coin that gives you the best indicator you can have of how much weight a coin actually loses due to wear. And it&#039;s very little. Just as my coin indicates.</p><p><br /></p><p>So those numbers that Winged Liberty posted are way off. Coins don&#039;t lose anywhere near that much weight from wear. At least not until you get down below the AG grades. In grades of Fine and Very Fine, and anything above, coins lose virtually nothing in weight.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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