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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 25263723, member: 112&quot;]When I say gold is far harder than most people think it is, I&#039;m talking about people&#039;s perception of gold - just how soft they &quot;think&quot; it is. </p><p><br /></p><p>For example, ask just about anybody you want why people used to bite gold coins ? The vast majority will answer and say something along the lines of - they were biting it to see if they could leave teeth marks in the coin because gold is soft and you&#039;ll see teeth marks if you bite it - teeth marks tell you it&#039;s genuine gold.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well that&#039;s partly true, they were biting it to see if it was genuine. But they were biting to make sure they <b>could not leave teeth marks</b> - because genuine gold is hard ! And if you bite it, you won&#039;t see any teeth marks !</p><p><br /></p><p>If you think gold is soft, take a small gold bar, a bullion bar, just a couple of grams, and try to bend it. You&#039;ll find out it&#039;s not as easy to bend as you think it is. Then take a silver bar, same size, and try to bend it. You&#039;ll find out there&#039;s very little difference between it and the gold bar, very little. I&#039;d even be surprised if you could tell the difference between the two. And you can do the same thing with copper. </p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah, the Mohs numbers, the hardness scale will be different, and gold has lower numbers than most other metals. But in the practical word, the world we live in, when it comes to things like wear on coins, there is very little difference between how copper coins, silver coins, and gold coins wear.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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