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- Path: sparky!uunet!rosie!NeXT.COM!James_Conley
- From: James_Conley@NeXT.COM
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Subject: Re: Buying silver
- Message-ID: <5878@rosie.NeXT.COM>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 17:04:28 GMT
- References: <1992Nov4.180820.6297@ferrari.nmc.ed.ray.com>
- Sender: news@NeXT.COM
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- In article <1992Nov4.180820.6297@ferrari.nmc.ed.ray.com> smiles@NMC.ED.RAY.COM
- (Kevin Ruddy) writes:
- > And as an aside, what's the difference between an ounce and a troy ounce,
- > and when it the latter used?
- > Kevin.Ruddy@NMC.ED.RAY.COM
-
- I don't know where you can get them, but a Troy ounce is 1/15th of a solid
- ounce rather than the usual 1/16th. I'm sure there is some semi-interesting
- reason for this, but I have no idea.
-