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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 4132121, member: 112"]OK, talked me into it. [ATTACH=full]1069705[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1069706[/ATTACH] Over a period of 15 years or so I carried a 1 oz AGE in my pocket every day. This one was the last of 4 different examples, and I carried this one the longest - for 7 years. Each one was carried in the same pocket with pocket change and a pocket knife, every day. But I didn't just carry them, I also used them as my "flipping coins" - as in I'll flip ya for it. When flipped, sometimes they were caught in the hand, allowed to land on the floor, a table or desk top, concrete, asphalt, dirt - whatever happened to be there. There were also handled and examined by countless numbers of people as I also used them to promote coin collecting among those who didn't. Over the years, those pictures have been used to illustrate how durable, and hard, gold actually is, how well it actually wears during every day use for 7 years, and to illustrate how little metal is actually lost as a result of that much wear. It was weighed when bought, and weighed when that picture was taken. That specific coin only lost 0.003 of a gram after enduring that much wear.[/QUOTE]