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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 25264698, member: 112&quot;]I can&#039;t speak about the modern 99.99% gold, but I can sure speak about the centuries old 98.6% gold coins. And they held up to wear very well indeed, and there are many thousands of examples to look at.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1611927[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1611928[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Well, abrasion can be a misleading and misunderstood word in this case because it implies a wearing away of the metal. That&#039;s why I mentioned the weight of the AGE I pictured above. After enough wear to get the AGE down to VG condition, the coin only lost 0.003 of a gram of its original weight. For all practical purposes that&#039;s nothing ! Proving that the metal doesn&#039;t/didn&#039;t wear away, it merely flattened out and spread out with wear. </p><p><br /></p><p>And it&#039;s not just gold that does this, all coins do basically the same thing. Appreciable weight loss only occurs once a coin has reached G or worse condition.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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