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<p>[QUOTE="str, post: 4945466, member: 115411"]I need to tell you a little story that hopefully doesn't end like the story of Sanford Saltus. Last night I tasted a Croesus prototype heavy gold stater (apparently I had some desire to see if Lydian gold had any interesting-tasting impurities), and to my great surprise and horror, there was a strong metallic taste. Now those who like to taste coins will recognize that gold has no taste, so this is a problem. Lead? Arsenic? Cyanide? Let's hope I don't go down to natural selection. After waiting for a few hours to ensure that the taste went away and I remained asymptomatic, I washed the coin and then tasted it again. No taste. Good pure gold. But what did I taste before the cleaning? Maybe the spit of everyone who has tasted this coin over the past 2,580 years? Likely something worse than that. We'll see if I learn to wash the next coin before tasting.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="str, post: 4945466, member: 115411"]I need to tell you a little story that hopefully doesn't end like the story of Sanford Saltus. Last night I tasted a Croesus prototype heavy gold stater (apparently I had some desire to see if Lydian gold had any interesting-tasting impurities), and to my great surprise and horror, there was a strong metallic taste. Now those who like to taste coins will recognize that gold has no taste, so this is a problem. Lead? Arsenic? Cyanide? Let's hope I don't go down to natural selection. After waiting for a few hours to ensure that the taste went away and I remained asymptomatic, I washed the coin and then tasted it again. No taste. Good pure gold. But what did I taste before the cleaning? Maybe the spit of everyone who has tasted this coin over the past 2,580 years? Likely something worse than that. We'll see if I learn to wash the next coin before tasting.[/QUOTE]
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