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<p>[QUOTE="Gam3rBlake, post: 5217793, member: 115909"]But it is!!</p><p><br /></p><p>That’s why people need to know this!</p><p><br /></p><p>I tested not 1, not 2, but 40 pandas!</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Every single one </i>of them was underweight. Now if it was only 1 or 2 pandas out of 40 I would’ve given the Chinese Mint the benefit of the doubt and assumed maybe it was just a bad batch. But 40 out of 40 underweight coins is not an accident or an exception. </p><p><br /></p><p>The lightest weighed 29.8g and the heaviest weighed 31.09g. Most of them averaged out at around 31.0g. Which is still 1/10th of a gram underweight per coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Any Mint worth their salt can mint coins/bullion to accuracy within a fraction of a gram unless you start getting into very large sizes like 100oz or 1000oz bars. But these bullion coins are only 31.1g so for the Chinese government to be off up to 1 full gram on some of them smells like conspiracy to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>I truly believe the Chinese government is shaving fractions of a gram off each Panda and when you multiply it by millions of pandas a year they are netting a significant amount of profit in silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>Keep in mind that every other country that I tested was slightly to moderately <b>overweight</b>.</p><p><br /></p><p>That makes sense considering most nations (all of them except China) put a little bit of extra silver to guarantee that in the event of a naturally underweight coin they do not fall short of 1 troy oz. It makes a lot of sense considering the government of that country is guaranteeing the weight as 1 full troy oz and not a flea’s weight less.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Gam3rBlake, post: 5217793, member: 115909"]But it is!! That’s why people need to know this! I tested not 1, not 2, but 40 pandas! [I]Every single one [/I]of them was underweight. Now if it was only 1 or 2 pandas out of 40 I would’ve given the Chinese Mint the benefit of the doubt and assumed maybe it was just a bad batch. But 40 out of 40 underweight coins is not an accident or an exception. The lightest weighed 29.8g and the heaviest weighed 31.09g. Most of them averaged out at around 31.0g. Which is still 1/10th of a gram underweight per coin. Any Mint worth their salt can mint coins/bullion to accuracy within a fraction of a gram unless you start getting into very large sizes like 100oz or 1000oz bars. But these bullion coins are only 31.1g so for the Chinese government to be off up to 1 full gram on some of them smells like conspiracy to me. I truly believe the Chinese government is shaving fractions of a gram off each Panda and when you multiply it by millions of pandas a year they are netting a significant amount of profit in silver. Keep in mind that every other country that I tested was slightly to moderately [B]overweight[/B]. That makes sense considering most nations (all of them except China) put a little bit of extra silver to guarantee that in the event of a naturally underweight coin they do not fall short of 1 troy oz. It makes a lot of sense considering the government of that country is guaranteeing the weight as 1 full troy oz and not a flea’s weight less.[/QUOTE]
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