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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3879106, member: 112&quot;]I don&#039;t recall the exact before and after weights. But I most definitely recall how exactly how much weight it lost - 0.003 gm. And I remember it because it made such an profound impact on me. I fully expected the loss to be small because I&#039;ve checked hundreds of coins in various states of wear, (maybe over a thousand), over the years to see how weight they lost from spec. But I was very surprised at just how small it was. </p><p><br /></p><p>And I also remember the loss amount exactly because I&#039;ve posted the results for this specific coin at least a couple of times over the years. </p><p><br /></p><p>Weight loss due to wear is something I&#039;ve studied for decades. And not just on modern coins, but on coins hundreds of years old. And the results are always the same in that the amount of weight lost is very, very, small. Much smaller than most folks seem to think. The vast majority of the time, once mint tolerance levels are taken into account, a coin has to get worn down VG grade before it loses enough weight to be out of spec.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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