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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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The rims, which are there to protect the legends, wear down as well, and in this case, enough to affect the maximum average thickness of the coins.
The SLQ's could also sustain up to about a 15% weight loss.
It would be interesting enough to weigh both lots, and actually calculate the %age weight loss, relative to the same number of unworn 90% silver quarters.
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04/15/2015 01:52 am
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Bedrock of the Community
United Kingdom
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Back in the 1980s I remember once I'd been getting £5 face value bags of 10p coins to sort through from banks. I once filled a bag completely with George VI florins (dated 1947-51) and when the cashier at my dump bank checked it, it was underweight and she had to count out the coins by hand to make sure there was the right amount. Those were cupro-nickel rather than silver coins, but it shows that they had lost a lot of weight over 40 years in circulation.
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Valued Member
United States
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That happened to me recently with a roll of very worn Buffalo nickels I just sold. The roll seemed way small, and was probably a good quarter to half inch shorter than a roll of little worn Jefferson nickels. I had to recount several times to make sure I didn't mess up. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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You should see what a roll of worn Mercury dimes looks like side by side with a roll of silver roo's from the 60's etc. I also recounted these mercs. many dimes just to be sure. Just be happy that when you sell these worn coins you get paid by the coin and not the actual weight. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I noticed this a long time ago with Mercury dimes. I have well over 3,000 of them and the most worn ones go into those tubes. Usually about 2 or 3 extra per tube due to wear. Now here is something to wonder about. If yours and others that have had Silver coins wear like that, where did that Silver go? Imagine virtually Billions of Silver coins that have lost a % of Silver. Where is that missing Silver? |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Dimes wiil sustain a greater % weight loss due to wear, than half dollars will.
Five dimes have a greater surface area available to be worn down, relative to to that of a single half dollar, of the same total face value.
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Moderator
 United States
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Where is that missing Silver? There were pants all over America at one time whose pocket linings were worth more when thrown out than when first made.  |
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Moderator
United States
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Pants, fingers, waste water...  |
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
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Quote:Pants, fingers, waste water... And this guy:  |
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Moderator
United States
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Papa Smurf is real?  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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If I remember right a way of debasing silver coins in the Middle Ages was too fill a sack with silver coins and then shake it. Then spend the real coins and melt the dust down. A capital crime.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Bearing in mind that silver has health benefits, would we have been a healtheir society when silver was in circulation?
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Moderator
United States
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Bearing in mind that silver has health benefits, would we have been a healtheir society when silver was in circulation?
Well, look at how fat Americans are now. I see the connection. Bring back silver! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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#BringBackSilverMsObama Get it, like how the school lunches were changed to make them healtheir, like.. whatever LOL.
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Moderator
United States
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Bearing in mind that silver has health benefits... [citation needed] |
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