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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 2615254, member: 27832"]I was puzzled by that as well. There isn't anything you can alloy with gold to make it <i>denser</i>, except maybe osmium or iridium, and that's not what they put into AGEs.</p><p><br /></p><p>If a Buffalo is <i>denser</i> (because it's pure gold), and <i>lighter</i> (because it's one ounce of gold with nothing else added, it <b>has</b> to be smaller in at least one dimension. Or hollow.</p><p><br /></p><p>That's for blanks, though. Once the design is struck, you could make the rim as tall as you like by just deepening the fields, within limits.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 2615254, member: 27832"]I was puzzled by that as well. There isn't anything you can alloy with gold to make it [I]denser[/I], except maybe osmium or iridium, and that's not what they put into AGEs. If a Buffalo is [I]denser[/I] (because it's pure gold), and [I]lighter[/I] (because it's one ounce of gold with nothing else added, it [B]has[/B] to be smaller in at least one dimension. Or hollow. That's for blanks, though. Once the design is struck, you could make the rim as tall as you like by just deepening the fields, within limits.[/QUOTE]
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