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<p>[QUOTE="Roger W Burdette, post: 2881013, member: 88504"]The 1947 table has been sent to all who requested it.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for coin weights, the Mint and Congress were trying to make some aspect of coins in even metric units, or conform to Latin Monetary Union standards. For example, two post-1873 half dollars were exactly the same weight as one 5 Franc coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Roger W Burdette, post: 2881013, member: 88504"]The 1947 table has been sent to all who requested it. As for coin weights, the Mint and Congress were trying to make some aspect of coins in even metric units, or conform to Latin Monetary Union standards. For example, two post-1873 half dollars were exactly the same weight as one 5 Franc coin.[/QUOTE]
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