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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 329296, member: 4626&quot;]Ah, that one... it&#039;s minted to traditional half eagle specifications and is 90% gold, 10% copper, and contains .24187 troy oz. of gold (almost a quarter of an ounce).</p><p><br /></p><p>Not to be confused with 1/10 oz. american gold eagle coins which also have a nominal denomination of $5 which contain 1/10 of a troy ounce of gold.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Er not sure about the math here... but I&#039;m reading the traditional specifications of half eagles being 8.359 grams.. not sure of gram to troy ounce conversion... I ended up with slightly less gold than that.&nbsp; But as the difference is a few hundreths of an ounce at most lol I suppose it&#039;s not too significant.&nbsp; I like the figure of approximately 1/4 an ounce, is a nice ballpark and makes the math easier lol...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Ok that&#039;s what I&#039;m coming up with... as far as I understand all the $5 gold commemoratives minted from 1986 to the present stick with the traditional half eagle specifications.&nbsp; They made be slightly different though.</p><p><br /></p><p>The $10 gold commemoratives (so far have only been 2 since 1984, the 1984 Olympic commemorative and the 2003 Wright Brothers Commemorative) are minted to traditional eagle standards and have almost a half an ounce of gold.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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