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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 25262367, member: 112"]Well, there are those of us out there, maybe not a lot of us, there are some. With respect, you couldn't be more wrong if you tried. An example for you, and I'm pretty sure you're gonna remember seeing this before. [ATTACH=full]1611531[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1611532[/ATTACH] And yeah, gold is softer than other coinage metals. But gold is far, far harder than most people think, and it wears very well. The AGE I just posted above was carried in my pocket, with 4 quarters, (and whatever other change I happened to accumulate over the course of the day), and a pocket knife - every single day for over 7 years. And it was used as my flipping and pitching coin, pretty much on a daily basis. And it didn't accumulate any where near as much wear as that 1930 coin, not even close ! My guess, it took 20 years, maybe more, for that coin to accumulate that much wear. And that 2002 wasn't the first or only AGE I did that with. There were 3 other AGE's I did that with before I ever got that one. Each and every one accumulated wear at the same rate. I would also add that the AGE pictured above lost only 0.003 of a gram of its weight after all that wear. That's a possibility. But I think it more likely, more probable, that it was carried as a pocket piece, a keepsake, by somebody from that time period who decided to hang on to it precisely because gold coinage had been recalled. And eventually passed on to that person's family.[/QUOTE]