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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2749904, member: 66&quot;]Are they reading as .917 fine?</p><p><br /></p><p>The planchet are made by an outside contractor from gold supplied by the Mint.&nbsp; I doubt the mint would tell them to use a standard different from the legally proscribed one, and if the contractor did it on their own I&#039;m sure the mint would notice that one they are getting back fewer planchets than they should be, and two they do assays on samples from each batch of planchets so I&#039;m sure they would notice the incorrect alloy.&nbsp; To be the correct weight but higher fineness the planchets would have to be thinner than normal which would also give them striking problems.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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