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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 215166, member: 669&quot;]Well, that rules out being a gold one. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>According to the Red Book (p.44 in my1993 edition):That equals ~26.2g.&nbsp; Yours is also too light to be the unique 1787 1/2 dubloon which was struck on an undersized planchet, and weighed half as much at the full ones (~13.1g). </p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t find anything in the Red Book about the diameter, nor the weight of the base metal versions.&nbsp; They would have been lighter than gold of the same dimensions, but I don&#039;t know enough about metallic specific gravities to tell whether ~1/3 the weight is correct.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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