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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cringely, post: 843046, member: 22271&quot;]Tungsten (which has the same density/specific gravity as gold) is an extremely hard metal and would require an extremely high pressure coining press (perhaps over 100 tons pressure) and equally hard dies to do a decent job if the coin was thinly plated.</p><p>The alternate is to have an inner core that is no thicker than the thinnest portion of the coin and then have an outer section that is 90% gold/10%copper.</p><p><br /></p><p>This can only be done by a highly sophisticated operation that would need to sell hundreds, if not thousands of coins to break even.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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