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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DMPL_dingo, post: 6788345, member: 75000&quot;]Thanks. Yes I’m weighing in ozt. I purchased a scale on Amazon last night with a better graduation (.01g/.001ozt) as well. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I just read through a thread on a <a href="https://gold-forum.kitco.com/showthread.php?73585-Variance-in-Mass-of-American-Silver-Eagles" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://gold-forum.kitco.com/showthread.php?73585-Variance-in-Mass-of-American-Silver-Eagles" rel="nofollow">different forum</a> from ten years ago, but filled with a lot of good info. People weighing their own ASEs and reporting similar slightly elevated weights, as well as a few posts mentioning the reason:</p><p><br /></p><p>“When coins are made, they are required to weigh a certain amount, such as the ASEs that are 1 troy ounce (31.1034768g). If they could, they would make them exactly 31.1034768g. But they cannot. They have to accept a certain variance in the weights. Scientists could perhaps produce small numbers of blanks that weigh 31.103g, but if you are making 4,000,000+ blanks a month, you&#039;re going to need to accept a higher variance.</p><p><br /></p><p>But, they cannot aim for 31.1g, or else 1/2 of the coins would weigh less, and couldn&#039;t be used (unless you&#039;re China; I&#039;ve heard quite a few real Panda coins weigh slightly less than they should). So they have to aim for a somewhat higher number, perhaps 31.3g. If the tolerance is +/- .2g, that would get them in the range 31.1-31.5g.”[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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