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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3331109, member: 112&quot;]Yeah those are the specified weights. But specified weights must be thought of as being a target, the weight that is &quot;aimed&quot; for. But there is also, especially on clad coins, a rather large tolerance level. And as long as the weight of any given coin is within that tolerance level then the coin is considered to be of legal weight.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I don&#039;t own a copy of Coin Digest but I believe it contains the tolerance levels for clad coins. But I believe [USER=66]@Conder101[/USER]&nbsp; does and if and when he sees this, perhaps he will tell us what it is. Or if anybody else owns one .........</p><p><br /></p><p>But as an example, the specified weight of a silver quarter was 96.45 grains, with a tolerance level of 1.5 grains. So a coin could weigh between 94.95 grains and 97.95 grains and be perfectly legal - within tolerance levels.</p><p><br /></p><p>To put that into a gram scale the coin could weigh between 6.15 gm and 6.34 gm and be within tolerance level. As you can see that&#039;s very close to two tenths of a gram, and few people ever take that into account when weighing coins. But it must be taken into account for it readily explains a lot of discrepancies. </p><p><br /></p><p>And it must also be understood that the tolerance level for clad coinage is much larger than it was for silver coinage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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