Question About Weight Variance In Pre-Decimal Florins

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sg93 Valued Member 294 Posts	Posted 04/01/2014 01:08 am I got these silver pre-decimal florins from a seller in the UK and most of them registered in the 11.1g range with only one of them just four-hundredths of the gram lighter. nothing else seems fishy about them. is it common for them to be lighter than 11.31g? Report this Post to the Staff

sel_69l Bedrock of the Community Australia 21788 Posts	Posted 04/01/2014 03:53 am I guess that like coins that passed the Pyx trial, they have a remedy allowance ( Weight Tolerance), for a newly minted coin. Nevertheless, a very worn pre decimal florin may weigh as much as 7% below the specified nominal weight of 11.31 grams. With much smaller coins, such as the silver threepence, that percentage could be as large as 20%, because the ratio of surface area : weight is much larger. Report this Post to the Staff
sg93 Valued Member 294 Posts	Posted 04/01/2014 05:03 am ok, that's a relief then. got me thinking I had a few Chinese counterfeits for a moment. reminds me though of a few LMC's I have in Whitman rolls, some of which were noticeably thinner than usual, although I was less concerned about that then with these florins Report this Post to the Staff
sg93 Valued Member 294 Posts	Posted 04/01/2014 08:02 am by the way, because I don't want to open another thread again, when were those UK red coin bank tubes produced? I find a plentiful amount of 1967 pre-decimals sold in these 'original' tubes but just stumbled upon some used to hold older dates and I'm not sure if these tubes were produced then Report this Post to the Staff
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