US mint states both types weight 31.103g. Is the missing reed under 0.0001g? Is the weight difference within the tolerance? Iw the missing weight added somewhere else?
Never thought about that, interesting, but I'm sure it's negligible, probably still weighs 31g. Anyone have one to weigh?
I would assume that there is no loss of silver. It’s not like someone is manually taking the reed off each coin by hand, lol.
About as much as is lost if you mash one of the reeds with a dull knife. In other words, none -- it just gets redistributed to the rest of the coin.
I just weighed a Ty 1 & TY 2 2021 SE. I'm not sure what it proves other than I have an inexpensive scale.
A planchet is a planchet...regardless of what shape it's squeezed into. Any difference in weight would be in the planchet itself...before it was struck.
0.11 of a gram is nothing and not surprising that a planchet might've been slightly off. That's 1.6 grains.
Yup yup...makes sense so the "missing" silver reed just flowed into the minted coin elsewhere. Small enough to make no visual difference.
The weight is set by the weight of the blank. The shape of the collar, which is what creates the "missing reed", doesn't change the weight.