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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 136804, member: 66&quot;]The coin is way overweight.&nbsp; An 1868 half dollar should weigh 12.44 grams with a tolerance of +/- .097 grams.&nbsp; So it is overweight by almost 7 times the legal limit.</p><p><br /></p><p>Best place to get a listing of the tolerances would be to get ahold of a copy of the Coin World Almanac.&nbsp; When they show up on eBay they can usually be purchased for about $5 or so.&nbsp; (Personally I would stay away from the Millennium edition (2000).&nbsp; They earlier editions are much better and have more information in them.&nbsp; I have multiple copies of all the editions and refer to them constantly.&nbsp; There is a TREMENDOUS amount of information in them.&nbsp; If you are a subscriber to Coin World or other Amos Press publications you can join Amos Advantage, and if you do a search of their offerings you will find that you can buy a brand new HARDBOUND copy of the 1994 edition for $5.&nbsp; (The softbounds eventually break at the spine and start falling apart.&nbsp; That&#039;s why I have multiple copies.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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