US Mint Quietly Lowers Silver Weights?

and the waiting begins...

There is an inconsistency somewhere in their information. I have always believed there to 31.103 grams in a troy ounce. If you look at the 2020 Quarter Silver proof set, it states 31.72 grams (6.343 grams per coin) and 1.12 troy ounces, whereas the 2022 Quarter proof set states 0.995 troy ounces and 31.715 (6.343 x 5 coins) as the weight in grams. I am not sure if there is a statute that addresses what the coin weight should be. I'll just look to see what happens here if or when the mint replies.

Has anyone who's gotten a Ag quarters set weighed one of the quarters? I get them with the full Ag set and that's not released yet.

I see from COAs online that the COA says .199 ozt and NOT 6.343 grams like it used to say.

Update. My email was sent to "upper management" last Feb. They have ignored me. Haven't heard a peep and likely will never hear from them.

Have you tried to press this issue since Feb?
Try using the 'freedom of information act to get the info you need. If it the information is public, they have to release it.

Received my 2022 Ag proof set and fired up my milligram scale to weigh the Ag quarters.

The Maya Angelo weighed 6.378gm, the Sally Ride weighed 6.358gm and the Willma Mankiller weighed 6.368. That's an average weight of 6.368gm. Didn't see the need to weigh any more, so I didn't weigh the Otero-Warren and Wong quarters.

Seems pretty clear that the silver quarter weights haven't changed from the previously stated weight of 6.343gm or .205 ozt.

Also, I didn't weigh the Kennedy half or the Roosevelt dime. Since the quarter's weights haven't changed, I suspect that the half dollar and dime weights haven't changed either. Maybe I'll weigh them later, if my curiosity gets the better of me.

So, it appears that someone at the Mint made a mistake when they converted the silver coin weights from grams to troy ounces and then transposed the mistakes to the COAs and website information.

My guess is that the Mint doesn't want to admit the mistake and be faced with the potential of having to provide updated correct COAs for all the products (remember they did provide updated packaging for the Apollo/Kennedy Half set that incorrectly identifed Gilroy Roberts as the reverse designer instead of Frank Gasparro.)

If anyone else has a milligram scale and is willing to weigh their silver coins, then I'd appreciate confirmation of my weight numbers, I did calibrate the scale before weighing the coins, but still, you can't be sure unless someone else can repeat the results as well.

I guess we now wait until next year to see if the Mint fixes the wrong weights for the silver coins.

The key point from the article is

Glad to see that my scale is still accurate

I guess I understand why the Mint wants to indicate the minimum precious metal content of the silver proof set coins (makes it consistent with the way they indicate the precious metal content for bullion coins), but it boggles my mind that they didn't let the coin collecting community know about the change when it was made

I tend to agree with this statement. a simple error and transitional error at the mint.