Dumb question, or what?

RegistryCoin

I have two 1922 peace dollars. One's planchet is 20% larger than the other. Is this a circulated proof or just a circulated peace?

Steve27

Do they weigh the same?

dthigpen

Back in my college days, we use to shrink coins in the lab. Perhaps this was what happened?

RegistryCoin

My son has a scale, a Salton meant for food, I believe, but probably used for other purposes. I check the weight and they showed equal. It is not believable, because the two coins do have a obvious weight difference, that one can tell just by putting each in one's palms, a visual diference as well. 20% is just a guess, but probably close to accurate.
ps. the smaller one isn't shrunk, but the larger one is obtuse... thanks for the thought.

dthigpen

Edit: Nevermind.

Perhaps the larger one is a fake?

Russ

<< <i>My son has a scale, a Salton meant for food, I believe, but probably used for other purposes. >>



I don't understand.

Russ, NCNE

dthigpen

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<< <i>My son has a scale, a Salton meant for food, I believe, but probably used for other purposes. >>



I don't understand.

Russ, NCNE >>



He's saying that his son uses it to measure the weight of illegal drugs.

RegistryCoin

I guess, he's cool to a point but, do you have an answer to my question?

lathmach

Define 20% larger.
Larger diameter? Thicker?
Look at the rays on the reverse to see if it's the high relief 1922.

Ray

Libertad

Is the reeding on the larger coin rounded over? I'm thinking of the practice of battering a coin
rim with a spoon to flatten/widen it out.

tradedollarnut

Could it have been struck out of collar? [No reeding on the edges]

Myqqy

My son has a scale, a Salton meant for food, I believe, but probably used for other purposes. >>

I don't understand.

He's saying that his son uses it to measure the weight of illegal drugs.



Why hasn't anybody said the obvious in that proofs weren't 20% larger than circulation strikes?? I think we need to see a picture.....

Conder101

One has been "Texas sized" by placing it between two pieces of leather and beating it with a hammer?

(The weight difference you note holding them in your palms when there is no difference on a scale could just be psycological. Your eyes see one as larger and tells your brain that and it therefor "feels" the larger one as being heavier.)