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<p>[QUOTE="Ken Dorney, post: 3157104, member: 76086"]These are my thoughts exactly. While it might seem logical to weigh every coin and transaction (and it is just a theory, or assumption as mentioned above) this obviously never happened. It could not have, otherwise nobody would ever have attempted to pass plated coins. The vast quantities in which they survive today tells us that not only did they frequently pass as 'good' coins, but that it was quite profitable for the forgers. Weighing each transaction just could not have been logical, possible, or even profitable for merchants, unless they were suspicious that they were being cheated. Considering governments weighing coins, that could be, but in the quantities they would be measuring there would certainly be a large margin of error, and a few grams here and there certainly would not have been noticed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ken Dorney, post: 3157104, member: 76086"]These are my thoughts exactly. While it might seem logical to weigh every coin and transaction (and it is just a theory, or assumption as mentioned above) this obviously never happened. It could not have, otherwise nobody would ever have attempted to pass plated coins. The vast quantities in which they survive today tells us that not only did they frequently pass as 'good' coins, but that it was quite profitable for the forgers. Weighing each transaction just could not have been logical, possible, or even profitable for merchants, unless they were suspicious that they were being cheated. Considering governments weighing coins, that could be, but in the quantities they would be measuring there would certainly be a large margin of error, and a few grams here and there certainly would not have been noticed.[/QUOTE]
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