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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 1094445, member: 27832&quot;]As I might have suspected, we aren&#039;t the first to consider the nature and significance of metal loss due to coin wear.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.econlib.org/library/YPDBooks/Jevons/jvnMME13.html#Chapter%20XIII.%20Technical%20Matters%20Relating%20to%20Coinage" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.econlib.org/library/YPDBooks/Jevons/jvnMME13.html#Chapter%20XIII.%20Technical%20Matters%20Relating%20to%20Coinage" rel="nofollow">Money and the Mechanism of Exchange, by William Stanley Jevons, 1875, Chapter XIII: Technical Matters Relating to Coinage</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I haven&#039;t read enough of the rest of the book to know how long this &quot;old silver money&quot; had been circulated before it was withdrawn. One wonders what its numismatic condition would have been. The German word &quot;glatt&quot; comes to mind...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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