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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 682381, member: 112&quot;]Ya know Roy, just for curiosity&#039;s sake I decided to see which one was right. Turns out, neither one is on all counts. At least not unless this metric conversion calculator is wrong - <a href="http://www.metric-conversions.org/weight/grains-to-troy-ounces.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.metric-conversions.org/weight/grains-to-troy-ounces.htm" rel="nofollow">Grains to Troy Ounces</a> But the Red Book is right on the later dollars.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, our early dollars actually contained 374.4 grains of pure silver. That converts to 0.780001 Troy ounces.</p><p><br /></p><p>Later dollars contained 371.25 grains of pure silver. That converts to 0.773438 Troy ounces.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Trade dollar contained 378 grains of pure silver. That converts to 0.787501 Troy ounces.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now all of these calculations are pretty dang close to each other when it comes right down to it. I suspect that any differences are due entirely to the calculators and the settings used on the calculators - or - minor mistakes made by those doing the calcs by hand.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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