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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 687838, member: 4703&quot;]A little research on the topic discloses that &quot;Goloid&quot; is a silver alloy with a small amount of gold and a somewhat larger amount of copper which the US Mint tested as a potential coinage metal in the 19th Century.&nbsp; (No mention in the Red Book that I can find.)</p><p><br /></p><p>It flunked the test because it could not be distinguished from the normal U.S. 90% silver coin alloy without chemical analysis, thus inviting counterfeiters to use silver-copper alloys alone to make lower-value copies - possibly including both of the ones pictured in this thread.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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