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Was thinking earlier about an odd question and wondered if it's happened. With there being different varieties and such in coins and even slight differences in weight has there ever been authentic coins that just weighed significantly more or less? Any value to them? I'm not talking about a wrong metal like a 43 copper penny just a plain old, say, penny that weighs a few grams or something more then it should. I don't have a scale but was thinking about buying one earlier and that question popped into my mind so I figured I'd ask the forum.
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Yes, of course there are authentic coins struck in the appropriate metal that are well out-of-tolerance weight wise. It's not at all common so errors such as this usually have significant value once authenticated as genuine. And by all means, purchase an expensive gram scale. For $15 you can get a good reliable scale that is accurate to 0.01g.
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Thanks I figured it has happened but couldn't really find anything other then those out of tolerance coins being fake. I really would like to get a scale cause I have a jar of 82 pennies I need to sort and for just checking weight for wear and such. I also need a loupe been thinking about a 10x one just haven't been able to pick one up yet.
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I really would like to get a scale cause I have a jar of 82 pennies I need to sort and for just checking weight for wear and such. I also need a loupe been thinking about a 10x one just haven't been able to pick one up yet.

I have a few scales and USED to use them for coins. Then I constantly thought all my scales were nutty. So many times I'd get odd results on similar coins. Then I had to remember that as a coin wears, it looses weight. Ahd if it's dirty, it gets an added weight. Also, I'm sure that the tolerances in weights right from the Mint is something that is not publized much.
As to your 82 Cents, rather than a scale, just use a balanced beam system. Balance a popsicle stick on a pencil. Place one of your 82 cents on the far end of the stick and a new cent on the other end. If it balances, your 82 is a Zinc one. If Copper, that one will fall down.
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In the 1880's the Mint was shipping $1000 bags of Morgans accurate to a Weight Tolerance of 2/100oz! That's half a gram over a thousand coins.
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has there ever been authentic coins that just weighed significantly more or less?

More or less than what? Spec weight? If that is what you mean then yes there are. There are also error coins that are struck on planchets punched from strip that was either rolled to thin or thick and the resulting coins that have weighs outside of the mint tolerances. These can vary from slightly out of tolerance to way out. The further they are from tolerance the more valuable they are. One warning though, counterfeit coins are FREQUENTLY outside of the mint tolerance so any coin with a weight out of tolerence should be looked at with skepticism.
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