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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 1620699, member: 15929&quot;]Coin weights are good indicators that something is up but its figuring out what that &quot;something&quot; is, is the challenge.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a 1973-S 40% Business Strike silver IKE that weights 23.1 grams which is on the extremely low end of the acceptable tolerances for 40% Silver IKE&#039;s who have target weights of 24.6 grams.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the other hand, I also have 1973-S 40% Silver Business Strike IKE&#039;s that weight 25.3 grams which is on the acceptable high end.</p><p><br /></p><p>The light weight coin shows evidence of a weak strike near the periphery of the coins edges which tells me that, for whatever reason, the planchet was just a wee bit thinner than the typical 40% Silver planchet.</p><p><br /></p><p>Big money? Only to the right coin geek who likes IKE&#039;s but I have never found such a person. </p><p>Unusual? I have no idea since I just don&#039;t weigh every IKE I come across. This coin only got weighed because I was actively searching for 73-S 40% coins struck on CnClad planchets of which 3 are known to exist. I was buying a lot of 73-S 40% Ike.</p><p><br /></p><p>It turns out, I wasted a bunch of money and time because the one I did find.....................</p><p><br /></p><p>came from the bank for $1.00.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.ngccoin.com/certlookup/CertResults.aspx?CertNumber=2559629-001" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ngccoin.com/certlookup/CertResults.aspx?CertNumber=2559629-001" rel="nofollow">http://www.ngccoin.com/certlookup/CertResults.aspx?CertNumber=2559629-001</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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