12-24-2002, 04:12 PM
There is no reliable source for weights. If it’s comes to common awards published information more or less reliable, but it’s too far form being reliable for rare awards. Even technical documentation for the order created in mint doesn’t always reflect real data. Many authors of publications just copy information form other sources, mostly from Kutsenko book. Paul always specifies measurements and weights information in his COAs. It would be reliable source since he measured hundreds of different species, but I doubt he would be willing to share this information. The best way so far is to ask fellow collectors about weights of awards in their collection which established to be 100% original.
