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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 3644194, member: 27832&quot;]The Gold Standard Act of 1900 tied the dollar to gold at $20.67 per troy ounce. This works out to 0.048379 ounce per dollar, or 0.48379 ounce per $10 eagle.</p><p><br /></p><p>The AGW of a double eagle is widely quoted as 0.9675, implying four-figure accuracy. (It&#039;s wrong; it should be rounded to 0.9676, but instead people just cut it off at the fourth place.) Even starting from the truncated number, halving that <i>should</i> give you 0.4838 (keeping the same number of significant digits), but every calculator will tell you 0.48375, and so that&#039;s what people show for the $10 eagle.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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