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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lucky Cuss, post: 1646743, member: 44086&quot;]<font size="2">This concerns the 19th century Mexican 8 Reales (also including the continuing Un Peso type of 1898-1909).</font></p><p><font size="2"><br /></font></p><p><font size="2">How consistent do you find the actual weight of these to be? Nominally they&#039;re supposed be 27.07 grams, but I find that put on the scale, ones I have tend to be around 26.8 or even 26.7 grams, and these are not markedly worn examples. Diameter doesn&#039;t seem uniform, either. I haven&#039;t examined enough of these to form an opinion on how endemic such shortfalls might be, nor as to whether the products of certain mints are more prone than others to coming in a little small and/or light.</font></p><p><font size="2"><br /></font></p><p><font size="2">I&#039;ve checked more of the later Un Peso from 1918 to 1945, and they appear to be much more in line with their official specifications.</font></p><p><font size="2"></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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