"Gold" alloys?

Does anyone out there know of any gold mimic alloys in the world besides Korea's aluminum bronze, the UK's two formulas, and the US's Sacajawea and Presidential coins?

 

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There are some Mexican bi-metal coins that have the color you are referencing.

 

Nordic Gold

 

The UK Threepences were brass annealed to give a bright gold-like lustre when new. I don't know about the other coins mentioned.
The Pobjoy mint produced coins in "Virenium" an alloy of copper, Zinc and Nickel, which resembled gold.
The Romans made coins in what they termed "Orichalcum", which resembled gold and they valued very highly. Modern understanding is this was probably Brass and came about when the copper ore contained natural Zinc.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orichalcum

 

You've got aluminum bronze from Australia for one and two dollar coins

 

What is "Korea's aluminum bronze?" Which coins are these?

 

Its a pale bronze color with a plant on it that (as I recall) was rice. But, I do remember for sure looking it up and seeing it was aluminum and copper and maybe a little bit of something else.

 

Thanks for all your replies, I'll be sure to look for some of these.

 

Darn, I don't have a pic of the Korean aluminum bronze, but here're a couple Mexican and Italian gold-ish looking coins I forgot I had.

This pic is just a rainbow I was putting together, from UK bronze all the way to Canadian nickel. I guess I need to add a whitish silver and that Korean coin to complete the spectrum.

 

This? But read the note...

https://en.numista.com/978

A search for "numista aluminum bronze" has several interesting candidates.

 

That Canadian quarter is actually 80% silver...but you're going in the correct direction as the Canadian quarters were solid nickel from 1968-1999.

For the last couple years I've been collecting/hoarding all solid nickel coins I get at 'reasonable' prices. Though the Canadian ones I'm hoarding for the next time I visit ONT as the border is only about an hour from my sister's house in the Flint, MI area and my in-laws in Metro Detroit.

 

The 10-Won coin that Krause (numismaster.com) USED TO claim exists ("KM# 33.2a") does not exist. This is an obvious error. The “Aluminum Bronze” coin doesn't exist.

The KM #103 does exist. That is the new version of the 10-Won coin (or the “4th Series” 10-Won). This is the copper-clad aluminum coin.

The description(s) from the Bank of Korea itself, in Korean and English:


From here: http://www.bok.or.kr/eng/main/contents.do?menuNo=400121

and here: http://www.bok.or.kr/portal/main/contents.do?menuNo=200385

Also…
In this image, the rows in red are non-existent. The cells in yellow (33.2 and 103) do exist. The values on the far right are the mintages.


That first yellow row, the 2006-dated "KM#33.2," does exist (the older 65% copper coin from 1983-2006).

 

Nope.

 

With silver sky high prices the melt value on that 1948 Canadian quarter
is almost $10.

 

Found it. Maybe it's Vietnamese or Philippine. It's the yellow gold color coin second from the left.

 

That's a 50-Won coin. 70% Copper, 18% Zinc, 12% Nickel.
And it isn't "yellow color."
I'm telling you: The Korean "aluminum bronze" coin does NOT exist. That was a Krause error. They contacted me to clean up their listings for the "Korea, South" section of their catalog after they migrated to numismaster.com. They printed that error in their last three or four annual issues of the Standard Catalog. The paper catalogs will no longer be printed. If you go to their site, you'll notice that supposed "aluminum bronze" coin is no longer there.

 

OK, Mark, NOBODY is questioning your experience with Korean coins. Pat yourself on the back again and again and ignore the other line of search I suggested...

Yep. Krause is dead. In the F+W bankruptcy sale, the data (via the magazines) went to Active Interest Media (numismaster), and the books went to Bertlesman via Penguin, which cancelled the "next" version and has no interest (and no data) for a new printed/PDF catalog.

But there are dozens of Aluminum-Bronze coins listed in the Numista catalog, including

Nordic Gold - https://scandinaviafacts.com/what-is-nordic-gold/




I also said

"A search for "numista aluminum bronze" has several interesting candidates." many of which, in their photos, appear to be golden color. Ignoring patterns...

Chile

https://en.numista.com/2844 - 1 Peso, Aluminium bronze (92% Copper, 6% Aluminium, 2% Nickel)
https://en.numista.com/5426 - 1 Peso, Aluminium bronze (92% Copper, 2% Aluminium, 6% Nickel)

Egypt

https://en.numista.com/5963 - 10 Milliemes, Aluminium bronze (Copper 92%, Aluminium 8%)

France

https://en.numista.com/178646 - 100 Francs, Aluminium bronze

Iran

https://en.numista.com/19034 - 5 Dīnār, Aluminium bronze

Israel

https://en.numista.com/1719 - 5 Agorot, Aluminium bronze (92% Copper, 6% Aluminium, 2% Nickel)

Lebanon

https://en.numista.com/3006 - 5 Piastres, Aluminium bronze (91% Copper, 9% Aluminium)

Morocco

https://en.numista.com/1706 - 5 Francs, Aluminium bronze

Spain

https://en.numista.com/5807 - 2.50 Pesetas, Aluminium bronze (90% copper, 10% aluminium)

Switzerland

https://en.numista.com/171 - 5 Rappen, Aluminium bronze (92% copper, 6% aluminium, 2% nickel)

Thailand

https://en.numista.com/7931 - 5 Satang - Rama IX, Aluminium bronze (91% Copper, 9% Aluminium)
https://en.numista.com/3840 - 10 Satang - Rama IX, Aluminium bronze (91% Copper, 9% Aluminium)

https://en.numista.com/1639 - 10 Baht - Rama IX Golden Jubilee, Bimetallic: aluminium bronze center in copper-nickel ring

Transnistria

https://en.numista.com/1556 - 25 Kopecks (0.25 PRB), Aluminium bronze
https://en.numista.com/23959

Yugoslavia

https://en.numista.com/829 - 10 Dinars, Aluminium bronze (91 % Copper, 9% Aluminium)

 

I did not write or respond to you that I doubt that there are other aluminum-bronze coins out there. Perhaps you are the one ignoring certain things?

I never misconstrued your words. I simply pointed out that there is no such coin in the SOUTH KOREA series of coins, as assertions to the contrary were just the result of a listing error by a publisher. You replied with a photo of a Second Series 50-Won coin and the words, "Found it." That coin is not "yellow," and does not contain aluminum.

Am I missing anything here?

 

Mark and Button, thanks a ton for all your research, that was amazing. Much appreciated. Stop fighting.

Let me check to see if I have two silver coin proofs to send as a thank you. I won a contest here at CoinTalk and got about 5 proof sets, and at least one had a silver coin in it.

 

Well, that's very civilized of you... Two silver proof coins is incredibly generous, considering today's silver prices. How about if you keep the one you want and send the other to BronzeAge? I do appreciate it, though!

That being said, nobody's fighting, I don't think. We had/have a disagreement, that's all.

If you had been here about 10 years ago, you'd have seen a much more divisive CoinTalk, that's for sure! What's happening here is tame by comparison.