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<p>[QUOTE="rhendricks2020, post: 25958511, member: 118392"]So the Jolly Fat Man who wears Red and breaks into peoples houses once a year in the middle of the night every year stopped by and left a few trinkets laying around the house this year. One of which was a coin scale for me to get a better read on my coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Naturally I read the instructions, calibrated the scale according to the directions, and used the provided 100g weight supplied for calibration.</p><p><br /></p><p>I weighed one of my Morgan Dollars, an 1880 and the weight came to be 25.36g. Looking at PCGS - it says normal weight should be 26.73g. I understand that coins "lose weight" based on how much wear the coin has seen. Does this coin appear to be more worn to account for the 1.37g difference? Or should I be worried that this coin isn't legit?</p><p><br /></p><p>The other Morgans I have weighed right in range of the 26.73g that they should be (+/- a few hundredths of a gram).</p><p><br /></p><p>Attached are the photos of the coin for your review.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1651927[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1651928[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="rhendricks2020, post: 25958511, member: 118392"]So the Jolly Fat Man who wears Red and breaks into peoples houses once a year in the middle of the night every year stopped by and left a few trinkets laying around the house this year. One of which was a coin scale for me to get a better read on my coins. Naturally I read the instructions, calibrated the scale according to the directions, and used the provided 100g weight supplied for calibration. I weighed one of my Morgan Dollars, an 1880 and the weight came to be 25.36g. Looking at PCGS - it says normal weight should be 26.73g. I understand that coins "lose weight" based on how much wear the coin has seen. Does this coin appear to be more worn to account for the 1.37g difference? Or should I be worried that this coin isn't legit? The other Morgans I have weighed right in range of the 26.73g that they should be (+/- a few hundredths of a gram). Attached are the photos of the coin for your review. [ATTACH=full]1651927[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1651928[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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