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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 711784, member: 66&quot;]Something not brought out in that link.&nbsp; Yes a mil is a thousandth of an inch, but the manufacturers of many of the products such as the fake proof CC dollars and the silver plated WTC commems or the &quot;Tribute&quot; double eagles etc have been using the term Mil as being short for a MILLIONTH of an inch so a 100 mil plating is only 1/10,000 of an inch thick or about half the thickness of the copper plating on the current one cent piece.</p><p><br /></p><p>I knew something was wrong because if it was a thousandth of an inch many of these 100 mill plated pieces would be thicker than they actually are in real life.&nbsp; 100 mils is a tenth of an inch, and hat plating is on both sides!&nbsp; so that would mean 2/10th of and inch thickness of silver on a piece that is less than 2/10th of an inch in total thickness.&nbsp; That&#039;s when I did some investigating and found that the companies were usuing it as an abbreviation for Millionth.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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