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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 982296, member: 112&quot;]You are making an assumption. It&#039;s not that they can&#039;t do it, it&#039;s that they <u>choose</u> not to do it.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Then you need to so some research because pure gold coin of that age do exist. As I said above - the coins have been tested in today&#039;s world with today&#039;s technology and those that they chose to make pure - were proven to be pure.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No, I am not saying that a touchstone can differentiate between .990 and .995. Karat needles were more accurate and they could differentiate between 23 karat and 24 karat. 24 karat gold, even today, is considered to be pure gold. Do you dispute that ?</p><p><br /></p><p>More importantly, and this is what truly proves that the ancients could do anything they wanted to do in regard to the purity of the metal, they could choose the fineness they wanted to 4 decimal points (.9860 for example), and have it be exactly right every time. Now do you really think that if they could do that, that they could not make it be 1.000 if they so desired ?</p><p><br /></p><p>The fineness of gold, and silver for that matter, were established by the ruling authority to be whatever they wanted it to be. It was not established by a lack of ability to make it pure.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Again - you are making assumptions, false assumptions. I&#039;ll use your argument - show me the book or research that says the mints cannot do this ? And yes I can show you mine, check Friedberg, check Krause. And above all use your own common sense. If they had the ability to even measure to 4 decimal places and maintain that exact level of purity for hundreds of years on the same coin - then is it even remotely logical to assume they could not achieve 1.000 fineness if they wished ?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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