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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4876784, member: 19463"]I have had loser here longer than I have had a scale with two digits and I sincerely doubt that all of our scales are calibrated the same so that hundredths place may not be significant. Unfortunately, I just reweighed mine using my current scales and only got 90.00g so I am gone from the list now anyway. Sorry for the false advertising. For the record, My personal daily weight varies more than my coin. Perhaps I can feed it breakfast and get back on the list???</p><p><br /></p><p> I suggest any of you with 'accurate' scales try weighing the same coin ten times and see what differences you see. My coins before about 2000 were weighed on purchase using a cheap balance beam scale. Since then I have had three different electronic scales which usually calibrate using a 100g weight which is not the best if you are weighing mostly denarii and obols. Does anyone have a scale that has a procedure allowing calibration with a 10g weight? Currently my scale tends to agree within .01 with coins I buy from CNG but not always varying in the same direction. Who remembers using balances in glass/wood cases that protected from drafts? How many of us use or scales in rooms with fans or AC vents? </p><p>Ptolemy II 90.0g AE octobol purchased from Dan Clark, 1995</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1177904[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4876784, member: 19463"]I have had loser here longer than I have had a scale with two digits and I sincerely doubt that all of our scales are calibrated the same so that hundredths place may not be significant. Unfortunately, I just reweighed mine using my current scales and only got 90.00g so I am gone from the list now anyway. Sorry for the false advertising. For the record, My personal daily weight varies more than my coin. Perhaps I can feed it breakfast and get back on the list??? I suggest any of you with 'accurate' scales try weighing the same coin ten times and see what differences you see. My coins before about 2000 were weighed on purchase using a cheap balance beam scale. Since then I have had three different electronic scales which usually calibrate using a 100g weight which is not the best if you are weighing mostly denarii and obols. Does anyone have a scale that has a procedure allowing calibration with a 10g weight? Currently my scale tends to agree within .01 with coins I buy from CNG but not always varying in the same direction. Who remembers using balances in glass/wood cases that protected from drafts? How many of us use or scales in rooms with fans or AC vents? Ptolemy II 90.0g AE octobol purchased from Dan Clark, 1995 [ATTACH=full]1177904[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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