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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;izotz, post: 1036334, member: 5446&quot;]The information provided is right. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>As chrisild addressed, you can read its weight on in. So in the time of my grandparents, some of those coins (5, 10 cents) were used in weighing scales (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weighing_scale#Balance" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weighing_scale#Balance" rel="nofollow">balances</a>) to put them on one side as standard masses instead of some of this kind :</p><p><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Odwa%C5%BCniki_2%2C_ubt.jpeg/220px-Odwa%C5%BCniki_2%2C_ubt.jpeg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>In that time, some shops were not reliable, as they used some coins which had been scratched to remove a little bit of its weight :devil: <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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