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Hey, it "Has a Surface Area Exceeding 15 Square Inches"! That's more than 2.5 times the surface area of an American Silver Eagle! In fact, it's better than that -- they're shortchanging themselves by forgetting the area of the reverse, so they actually exceed 30 Square Inches, or five times the area of an ASE! I can see I've been marketing my porous, corroded coins all wrong. I should be listing them as "Enhanced Surface Area" coins! You're getting more for your money!
Well, it *is* individually struck. As opposed to those other coins that are stamped out of sheets of metal 300 at a time, I suppose? And there is that surface area to consider.
I was thinking that there were "$100" silver bars appearing on eBay a while back that were actually either 4 or 5 ozt (don't remember for sure) of .999 silver.
