In this article of a specialized web site Numismatica Ranieri, we're going to find out what are the weights coin, and what are their most relevant characteristics.
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The weights coin
Even if they do not fall within the field of interest of the collectors of coins, weights coin has its roots in the numismatic and is therefore a must clarify the reason of their birth. As already mentioned at the beginning, in the past, the coins had a value proportional to the quantity of the precious metal content.
In practice, boasted an intrinsic value, in contrast to the coinage of today that has value trust, guaranteed, therefore, not by money itself but by the authority that issued it. The coins of gold and silver were the subject of attention from the part of many "sharp operators tricking" that they used to practice a filing along the cutting of the logs in order to recover the precious metal.
For each sample a few tenths of a gram, incidentally, but in the amount of the rogue could raggranellarne several grams. The specimens fleeced were then sold again for good to some poor guy.
Also some extremely worn-out could show discrepancies of weight considered to be relevant and not be accepted as equivalent.
Thus was born the need to always know, with a good precision the real value of the precious coins, and this could only be done by weighing.
For the purpose they prepared floppy disk in brass, the weights in monetary note, with the weights of the gold coins circulating. On the one hand there was stamped a written and/or a symbol indicating the coin was a reference, while the other was generally smooth, or at most with a small brand as a guarantee of the weight.
At the level of the collectible weights coin are certainly a niche very small and the prices of the market, also because of the availability of the pieces vary between 10 and 20 thousand lira (20-40 Euros). There are still the rare specimens (great lines, all those depicting a bust) as there are fans be willing to purchase them.
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