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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 958151, member: 66&quot;]Probably because&nbsp; I only know of&nbsp; one or two California gold replicas that are actually gold. 99% of the them are gold plated lead.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No I wouldn&#039;t expect it to be right on the dot either, but it wouldn&#039;t be a gram off.&nbsp; When it came to precious metals they tended to be VERY precise.&nbsp; Under weight planchets would have been rejected (they had reputations and people back then kept track of such things.&nbsp; If you shorted weight or fineness it was discovered VERY quickly and your product would only be accepted at a discount and possibly not at all.)&nbsp; Overweight planchets would have been adjusted downward.&nbsp; In most cases your coins contain within just a few cents of the face value in precious metal.&nbsp; Just slightly heavy and they wold be melted down.&nbsp; Look at the US gold coins of the time.&nbsp; Weight tolerance for an eagle back then was just .016 grams.&nbsp; That is 1/10 of 1% off the legal weight.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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