Numismatic ignorance

Italian article about buying gold coins as investment.
http://www.oroportale.it/monete-d´oro-ottime-come-investimento-14.php
They put this pic

 

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So you`re saying there are morons and scammers on the interwebz?!

 

It's not just the US, other countries have idiots, too.

 

With a regular paper or news site, I would say "pretty common": Hey, the article is about gold, we need to have a stock photo of a gold coin, quick! But here? That is a gold portal after all ...

Christian

 

My girlfriend's grandfather believed that his pile of these coins (pictured above) were gold...of course, he probably bought them from HSN or a TV ad where they do everything to stress the GOLD dollar and make it sound like it IS gold...so at least some of it is false advertising...

 

I don’t know, do you speak Italian? Are they saying the Sac is or is not gold?

 

Yes, I'm Italian. They just say that gold coins are a good investment, they don't mention any particular kind of coin. They probably picked a random photo on the net.
If someone really sell bronze coins as gold, he must be prosecuted for fraud.

 

Then again, keep in mind that here (sono nella zona euro anch'io) we have such catchy terms as well. Think of the "Nordic Gold" coins. So some poor editor will have seen the words "Golden Dollar" somewhere, and ... hehe.

Christian

 

cant find it now but the other day i saw a meme that said ''queer as a three dollar coin''. idiots...............

 

I believe the only real gold Sacagawea dollars (mintage of 12 pieces) were flown into space and returned to earth and were placed in the national numismatic collection. Another one of our members may know more.

 

You mean the rolls and rolls of Sac dollars I bought for a dollar per coin isn't real gold?! Son of a ...!

 

the 2000(1999)-W prototypes were flown into space, and are now in the smithsonian

 

Ah, thank you.