Coin Weight
Each coin was weighed on a Dillon Precision D-Terminator scale which gave the weight in both grains and grams. Grains were calculated to the tenth of a grain and grams to the one hundredth of a gram.
Coin Weight
A piece of metal which is the exact weight of a known coin. If the weight is placed on one side of a scale, and a coin that it is meant to measure is placed on the other side, the scale should balance.
Collar ...
Coin Weight - A round disc, usually of brass that had an identical weight to a certain coin. Used to check the weight of the coin and verify if it's genuine or not.
Gold Five-Dollar Coin Weight:
8.359 grams nominal
Diameter:
0.850 inch (±0.003) or 21.59 mm (±0.08)
Composition:
90 percent gold, 10 percent alloy
Mintage Limit:
100,000 across all product options
Place struck: ...
Adhering to the specifications for coin weight and alloy prescribed by the Mint Act of 1792 required the Mint to maintain the same standards as for the thinner and larger coins previously struck.
Today it is customary to express coin weights in grams, though in older catalogues one may encounter troy grains; usually a conversion table is provided.
If the value of the coin is completely dependent on its metal content, varying coin weight is not likely.
We soon hope to do an in-depth study of early round coin weights. If any issue of these round-holed types turns up with a weight standard around 12 grams (24 shu), ...
(a unique 1866 proof specimen is known, though unnoted in the Mint Director's report and not issued for circulation), but within that time span are two additional quarter types; and arguably a third, though the last is a difference of coin weight ...
Once the new denominations of sovereign and half sovereign had started production, a set of coin weights including one for seven shillings (or third guinea) was minted by the Royal Mint in brass in 1821; ...
The following Asiatic coin weights (staters, &c.), are approximately identical either with one or other of the above-mentioned ‘Babylonic' gold shekels, or with 10ths or 15ths of their silver equivalents.
This actually was part of a quality control endeavor to help regulate consistent coin weights across the empire. Collecting coins from the same mints or collecting a specific coin type from various mints, are directions many take in this hobby.
Revaluation In 1947 due to the cost of WW2 the silver content of the coins was reduced from 0.825% to 0.50% of the coin weight, this lasted until decimalisation of the 14 February 1966.
Feburary 2008 The Burden of the Temple Tax (Jewish), Roman Republican silver coin weights,
Barbarous/semi-offical/imitative coins
March 2008 History and Coinage of the Aetolian League, Roman Republican silver coinage: Silver content ...
If the weight and fineness of a particular denomination continued unchanged into a subsequent reign, it will be listed for both the initial period and the subsequent monarch(s). Total coin weights (ie, precious metal content plus base metal content) ...
 See also: Coin, Gold, Silver, Struck, Coinage
  
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