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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 5272526, member: 112"]The thing you gotta remember when it comes to the weight of a coin is that there are very, very few coins that will actually weight the specified weight. The spec weight, that's really nothing more than a reference point. It is a specified number where the final weight of each coin has to within a tolerance range of that number.</p><p><br /></p><p>For as long as they have minted coins there have always been tolerance ranges for each and every coin. That was true 2,000 years ago and it's true today. The thing that most people don't realize is that even hundreds of years ago the tolerance ranges were much smaller, tighter, more strict, than they are today. If you look at that chart above you can see how the tolerance ranges increased over the years. And a couple hundred years before the earliest in that chart the tolerance ranges were even smaller. </p><p><br /></p><p>Also, a lot of folks seem to think that hundreds of years ago, even a thousand years ago, they didn't have the technology to get weight and fineness to such tight specifications. But nothing could be further from the truth ! They were most definitely able to do that ! They were able to get fineness and weight to within 4 decimal places. And today, tests, using modern technology, have proven that they did it all the time, and very consistently ! </p><p><br /></p><p>Just a few years ago Teyler's Museum in The Netherlands conducted tests on their collection of Netherlands gold ducats hundreds of years old, measuring hundreds of coins for weight and fineness. The results, every coin was within tolerances for weight and fineness - every coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 5272526, member: 112"]The thing you gotta remember when it comes to the weight of a coin is that there are very, very few coins that will actually weight the specified weight. The spec weight, that's really nothing more than a reference point. It is a specified number where the final weight of each coin has to within a tolerance range of that number. For as long as they have minted coins there have always been tolerance ranges for each and every coin. That was true 2,000 years ago and it's true today. The thing that most people don't realize is that even hundreds of years ago the tolerance ranges were much smaller, tighter, more strict, than they are today. If you look at that chart above you can see how the tolerance ranges increased over the years. And a couple hundred years before the earliest in that chart the tolerance ranges were even smaller. Also, a lot of folks seem to think that hundreds of years ago, even a thousand years ago, they didn't have the technology to get weight and fineness to such tight specifications. But nothing could be further from the truth ! They were most definitely able to do that ! They were able to get fineness and weight to within 4 decimal places. And today, tests, using modern technology, have proven that they did it all the time, and very consistently ! Just a few years ago Teyler's Museum in The Netherlands conducted tests on their collection of Netherlands gold ducats hundreds of years old, measuring hundreds of coins for weight and fineness. The results, every coin was within tolerances for weight and fineness - every coin.[/QUOTE]
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