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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Fred Weinberg, post: 2928464, member: 86437&quot;]PM98 is correct, of course.</p><p><br /></p><p>A coin with a &#039;cud&#039; die break weighs</p><p>the same as a normal coin - there is</p><p>no extra metal, it&#039;s the same metal</p><p>from the planchet being &#039;sucked up&#039;</p><p>into the area of the broken die; that&#039;s</p><p>why there is weakness on the opposite</p><p>side of the coin - the metal flows into</p><p>the broken die - the path of least resistance.</p><p><br /></p><p>Any weight difference is due to planchet</p><p>tolerance difference, or something that </p><p>happend to the coin after it circulated.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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