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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;brg5658, post: 1349839, member: 29751&quot;]ASW = Actual Silver Weight</p><p><br /></p><p>AGW = Actual Gold Weight</p><p><br /></p><p>--------------------------------------</p><p>These terms are used for gold and silver coins to give you actual weight of the silver or gold parts of the coin.&nbsp; Most coins are not 100% or 99.99% of silver or gold, but are lesser percents (80%, 92.5%, etc).&nbsp; Thus, the total weight of the coin is not all silver or gold, but only a portion of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>For example, a <a href="http://www.coincommunity.com/us_dollars/morgan.asp" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coincommunity.com/us_dollars/morgan.asp" rel="nofollow">Morgan dollar</a> weighs 26.73 grams, but it is only 90% silver.&nbsp; Thus, the ASW is 26.73 * 0.90 = 24.06 grams.&nbsp; There are 31.10 grams in a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_ounce" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_ounce" rel="nofollow">Troy Ounce </a>of silver.&nbsp; So you will often see it reported that a Morgan Dollar contains (24.06 / 31.10) = 0.7735 ozt of pure silver.&nbsp; Or simply put, you may see ASW = 0.7735 ozt.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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