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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1706473, member: 66&quot;]Because it contains nearly an oz of copper.&nbsp; This was back when a coin was expected to have close to its face value in metal content.&nbsp; At that time 2 sols in silver would have been less than half a gram in weight (about half the size of a three cent silver).&nbsp; this would be too small to handle so they used copper.&nbsp; But that made the coin weigh close to an oz&nbsp; (There was also a copper 5 sols token privately issued that weighed nearly two oz)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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