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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 7925945, member: 26302&quot;]I thought I read they were issues X pounds of metal and were expected to return X coins. That is how they controlled for that. For precious metal coins, weight per coin was also evaluated, but for coppers they didn&#039;t care as much which is why we see more deviations in weights.</p><p><br /></p><p>Interesting point though. I wonder if some weight variations were driven by theft, mint employees stealing half a gram per tetradrachm for example.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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