Dumb question, or what?

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• Steve27 Posts: 13,275 ✭✭✭

  November 30, 2004 1:52AM

  Do they weigh the same?

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• dthigpen Posts: 3,932 ✭✭

  November 30, 2004 1:53AM

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

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• RegistryCoin Posts: 5,117 ✭✭✭✭

  November 30, 2004 2:05AM

  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.

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• dthigpen Posts: 3,932 ✭✭

  November 30, 2004 2:06AM

  Edit: Nevermind.
  
  Perhaps the larger one is a fake?

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• Russ Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭

  November 30, 2004 2:10AM

  
  
  << <i>My son has a scale, a Salton meant for food, I believe, but probably used for other purposes. >>
  
  
  
  I don't understand.
  
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• dthigpen Posts: 3,932 ✭✭

  November 30, 2004 2:12AM

  
  
  << <i>
  
  << <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.

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• RegistryCoin Posts: 5,117 ✭✭✭✭

  November 30, 2004 2:19AM

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

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• lathmach Posts: 4,720 ✭

  November 30, 2004 7:21AM

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

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• Libertad Posts: 188 ✭

  November 30, 2004 9:27AM

  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.

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• tradedollarnut Posts: 20,240 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 30, 2004 9:33AM

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

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• Myqqy Posts: 9,777 ✭

  November 30, 2004 9:33AM

  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.....

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• Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭

  November 30, 2004 11:14AM

  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.)

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