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This has always puzzled me. Why would you make a coin that is very nearly, but not quite, 1/8 oz? It's not a nice round metric weight either.

• pessimizer 2y ago
  Metric only has an advantage for precision measurements that have to be operated on arbitrarily, not for dividing things. You're usually dividing things in halves, far less often into thirds and even more rarely into fifths. 1/8 oz is an ounce that has been divided in half three times. Or you can think of it as a pound that has been divided in half seven times.
  • masfuerte 2y ago
    I understand why they might have chosen 1/8 oz. I don't understand why they chose not quite 1/8 oz. That's the puzzle.
    • avidiax 2y ago
      Could it be that it is meant to be 1/8th ounce nominally, but there is some lacquer or varnish that takes the weight up slightly?
    • ojhughes 2y ago
      It's so that big Dave can sell his 8ths a little bit under weight