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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3362329, member: 112&quot;]They looked just as described in the article - &quot;apparently no more worn or battered than most of the metal money a few years old.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>But I&#039;m a bit surprised Jeff that you are not applying your usual skepticism to the rest of the article. Ya see, the article describes sweating coins, but it then leaves it to the readers&#039; imagination to assume, and almost certainly falsely assume, that the coins described as &quot;handled with violence&quot; and thus short of weight, were the result of the coins having been &quot;sweated&quot; ! </p><p><br /></p><p>It is far more likely that the coins &quot;handled with violence&quot; were rubbed or scraped on rough surfaces, sanded, shaved, etc etc in order to remove that much weight. </p><p><br /></p><p>In order to back up my comments I offer this as evidence - and you&#039;ve seen it before. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]891338[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]891339[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>It took seven years of continuous daily wear of that coin rubbing against other coins, and a pocket knife, in my pocket, and it being dropped on every imaginable surface from carpeted floors to asphalt roads more times than I care to count - for it to get into that condition - 7 years of daily wear. </p><p><br /></p><p>What grade would you use to describe that coin Jeff ? Me, I&#039;d say it&#039;s Fine at best. But yet when weighed, in that condition, the coin had only lost <b>0.003 of a gram</b> of weight from its specified weight.</p><p><br /></p><p>Do you think for even one second that &quot;sweating coins&quot; for an hour or two would do that - result in that much wear ? When it took 7 years to do it to this one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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