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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4718209, member: 110350"]I understand what you're saying about nothing being certain absent drilling, but obviously people make estimated determinations about ancient coins without doing that. To me, what's significant is not so much the absolute accuracy of the SG numbers I got with the new scale, but the relative numbers I got by measuring the Capito coin against a couple of others from the same time period -- consistently yielding a materially lower number for the Capito than the others. Taken together with the visible copper showing through on the Paris example of the same hybrid that [USER=103687]@abc123[/USER] found, I don't think there's much doubt that my example is also plated. And that it has such thick plating -- for whatever reason -- that for all we know its true nature may never have been discovered.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4718209, member: 110350"]I understand what you're saying about nothing being certain absent drilling, but obviously people make estimated determinations about ancient coins without doing that. To me, what's significant is not so much the absolute accuracy of the SG numbers I got with the new scale, but the relative numbers I got by measuring the Capito coin against a couple of others from the same time period -- consistently yielding a materially lower number for the Capito than the others. Taken together with the visible copper showing through on the Paris example of the same hybrid that [USER=103687]@abc123[/USER] found, I don't think there's much doubt that my example is also plated. And that it has such thick plating -- for whatever reason -- that for all we know its true nature may never have been discovered.[/QUOTE]
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