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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1374797, member: 26302&quot;]The weight should NOT match if its a true offmetal strike, unless somehow the two metals have the same SG. An offmetal strike was supposed to be identical to a regular strike in every way but the metal in the planchet. As an aside, these were done in the old days to trial a new die, striking it on softer metal so as to not wear the die out and still get &quot;fresh&quot; strikes in the correct metal later. Of course, later on they were sometimes struck for collectors. </p><p><br /></p><p>The only way I know is to die match it with a known good specimen, and rule out types of known copying. Sending it to be slabbed is good if you don&#039;t know how to do these things, (I am not claiming I do either).</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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