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Message:: [QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 1086959, member: 27832"]Yeah, and a "FULL QUARTER OUNCE" of dimes is going to be, drum roll please, three. Clarifying that it's avoirdupois gets him off the hook if he's selling badly worn ones. Lots of people on eBay are selling "ONE FULL OUNCE OF SILVER (coins)", meaning one av. ounce of 90% silver, or 0.91 troy oz. of 90% silver, or 0.82 troy oz. actual silver weight. But people seem happy to bid up these lots well past the price of a troy ounce of pure silver. If not for my conscience, I'd get in on the racket myself. Even better are the ones selling "ONE FULL TROY POUND", which is twelve troy ounces. Many of these sellers go ahead and state the actual minimum weight of the lot in grams, which most bidders, fulfilling another American stereotype, ignore. It certainly covers the seller from a buyer/seller-protection perspective, but it doesn't protect them from negative feedback. Edit: Good Lord, his auctions with "1/4 ounce" in the title have been closing around $4-5 (plus a profit-ensuring $5 for shipping); the ones that just say "lot of dimes", with a picture of a big pile of them and the "1/4 ounce" in the description, have been consistently closing at $20+! Don't people read? Are they too embarrassed to leave feedback saying "don't be fooled, this is an auction for three dimes, not the pile in the picture"?[/QUOTE]