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<p>[QUOTE="PaddyB, post: 1615372, member: 40017"]I hate these ads as much as anyone, but they are covered in their small print: "you can reserve your own tribute proof of the $50 Buffalo Gold Coin clad in 14 mg of 24 KT gold." The fact that the rest of the blurb talks about a genuine .9999 gold coin, that this is just a tribute to, is the misleading part. (14mg of gold by my reckoning is about 50c worth?)</p><p><br /></p><p>We have similar companies over here - for future reference, the only genuine producer of British coins these days is the "Royal Mint". When you see producers such as "London Mint" or "Westminster Mint" or anything else, then you are being taken for a ride.</p><p><br /></p><p>After a while one develops one's <span style="color: #ff0000">Edited~curse rule violation-substitution with symbols not allowed</span> detectors. Even if I had not been warned about this buffalo site, alarms would have gone off very early in my mind![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="PaddyB, post: 1615372, member: 40017"]I hate these ads as much as anyone, but they are covered in their small print: "you can reserve your own tribute proof of the $50 Buffalo Gold Coin clad in 14 mg of 24 KT gold." The fact that the rest of the blurb talks about a genuine .9999 gold coin, that this is just a tribute to, is the misleading part. (14mg of gold by my reckoning is about 50c worth?) We have similar companies over here - for future reference, the only genuine producer of British coins these days is the "Royal Mint". When you see producers such as "London Mint" or "Westminster Mint" or anything else, then you are being taken for a ride. After a while one develops one's [COLOR=#ff0000]Edited~curse rule violation-substitution with symbols not allowed[/COLOR] detectors. Even if I had not been warned about this buffalo site, alarms would have gone off very early in my mind![/QUOTE]
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