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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 8543708, member: 76194&quot;]Well, I ran it through a SIGMA machine and it checks out, not that I doubted it, so that still leaves me with my original question of whether my scale is not accurate enough (despite calibrating it and it appearing to check out just fine) or whether the mint came extremely close to specification on these old coins, but there are slight variances on all of them depending on the batch.</p><p><br /></p><p>My money is on the mint back then having a looser tolerance (ie. 0.01 or so) being &quot;close enough&quot;. Either way, this is not a critical thing, just me pondering an issue probably 99.99% of collectors these days wouldn&#039;t give a darn about, especially when just about everyone and their mothers buy slabbed coins today. I&#039;m one of the few who buys raw bullion and raw old coins, and will avoid coins with super high numismatic premium due to grade. And in the rare instance I buy a coin from my local coin dealer that had no business being slabbed (ie. a super common gold coin in a very common grade or a super common Morgan in an average grade --coins that the plastic adds no premium to) I use a hammer to free them from captivity and stick them in an airtight instead.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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