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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1992009, member: 19463&quot;]Yes and beyond that we need to know whether a particular issue was tightly controlled or known to be really sloppy from coin to coin.&nbsp; There are coins that a .5g variance would be a concern but this one is not in that category and the poor thing has suffered greatly in the hands of a really nasty coin cleaner.&nbsp; That alone would take the .5g.&nbsp; I do not have the exact coin but this one from a different officina of the same mint was purchased in 2000 from Victor Failmezger (he wrote the book on the period) for $10.&nbsp; It is RIC volume VI page 519 61b (rated common).&nbsp; The $10 price was due to it being so common and the poor reverse strike but the obverse is nice.&nbsp; The flan was too thin (as was yours) to fill both dies with metal available and the reverse lost the fight.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]356791[/ATTACH] </p><p>&nbsp;It weighs 2.2g.&nbsp;&nbsp; Your coin lost weight to corrosion; mine lost it to sloppy mint practices.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>My Licinius of the issue bought the same day from Victor (also $10) is RIC 60 page 519 weighs 3.0g and has a better reverse strike.&nbsp; RIC still insists the coin should weigh 3.75 to 3.25g but I&#039;m wondering where they got their fat coins.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]356792[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Nothing at all.&nbsp; I would, however, forgo the fries with that Mac and spend the extra cash on a slightly better specimen that had not been butchered in cleaning.&nbsp;&nbsp; Today my coins would not be more than double what I paid from a fair dealer or 5x from an extortionist.&nbsp; If people stop buying the butchered coins maybe they will slow up on the coin abuse and clean with gentility. </p><p><br /></p><p>My goodness, I have too many coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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