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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2678091, member: 112&quot;]Quite true, and they don&#039;t all weigh the same. But most are so close as to not matter. And you also need to keep in mind that in the past tolerance levels were much tighter than they are in modern times. Especially with gold and silver coins.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And it&#039;s that line of thinking that usually gets most people. What they don&#039;t take into account is that wear doesn&#039;t remove metal from the coin until it reaches very advanced stages. Prior to that it&#039;s more a matter of the metal being pushed down, squished, flattened out - but remaining on the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah it&#039;s this coin, and it was one of several that I had carried over the years.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]597945[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]597947[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And yes, I weighed it when purchased and when I took these pics. As you see it above, I would grade that coin at no better than F12. And yet it had only lost 0.003 gm in weight. And no, that is not unusual.</p><p><br /></p><p>What did I do with it ? That one I sold to another forum member in 2009 who happened to want it because it was mine. And because it had cost it him the dinner check when I used it to flip to see who paid <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Its predecessors however were spent at various coin shows when I happened to run out of cash and still had coins I wanted to buy <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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