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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 4860710, member: 27832"]In that condition, they won't have lost enough weight for your scale to detect. Wear has mostly moved metal on the surface (bumps and scrapes), and only removed metal from the very highest points. I doubt if any of them have lost more than a few hundredths of a gram.</p><p><br /></p><p>A 1/10g scale can be <i>expected</i> to be off by at least a tenth of a gram. You can try it out with stacks of uncirculated nickels (5.0 +/- 0.2g) and see what you get. Or, do you happen to have any modern US commemorative sets that include silver dollars? They should have the same weight and dimensions as the Morgans.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 4860710, member: 27832"]In that condition, they won't have lost enough weight for your scale to detect. Wear has mostly moved metal on the surface (bumps and scrapes), and only removed metal from the very highest points. I doubt if any of them have lost more than a few hundredths of a gram. A 1/10g scale can be [I]expected[/I] to be off by at least a tenth of a gram. You can try it out with stacks of uncirculated nickels (5.0 +/- 0.2g) and see what you get. Or, do you happen to have any modern US commemorative sets that include silver dollars? They should have the same weight and dimensions as the Morgans.[/QUOTE]
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