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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 25484874, member: 112&quot;]Yes. And they didn&#039;t just tolerate them, they specified them, actually needed the tolerances, they were a necessity. All you have to do to realize this is to think about how the planchets were made at the time. Or even today for that matter. When it comes to weight, while perfection was possible it simply wasn&#039;t practical for mass production. So they had to use tolerance levels. It was also a matter of instilling confidence and trust in the issuing authority. And not just for one&#039;s own citizens, but in other countries as well. Coins, money, had to be trusted for purposes of trade.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Many people seem to think that because it was so long ago that they lacked the technology, the know how, to produce coins to within specified tolerance levels, and fineness. But that simply isn&#039;t true. They absolutely did. And not only did they do it in the 1700&#039;s they had been doing it for centuries before that.</p><p><br /></p><p>And to back this policy up, even in the 1700&#039;s, the punishment for producing coins out of weight and fineness tolerances was often death, often by unspeakable methods. Not in this country, but in many others it certainly was.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>OK, but look at what the&nbsp; tolerance levels were, 4 or 5 milligrams is nothing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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