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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 1417062, member: 19065&quot;]Aesthetically, there&#039;s bound to be something that attracks everyone out there and is used to justify one&#039;s like or dislike for everything for different reasons. Gender is but one contributing factor you&#039;ve given for your own preference, the other suggesting REAL gold were in use in the painting. The same reasons wouldn&#039;t be enough for everyone to agree to any concensus, paticularly among those individuals who came to find the subject matter of women in controlled poses, groped in the European Baroque period or on screen in modern&nbsp; cinema covered in shiny metallic paint that is only golden in the imagination, to be acceptable. Real gold is still a chain binding the female form for some I would hazzard a guess.</p><p><br /></p><p>As I mentioned earlier about gold in holy places, there&#039;s an enduring legacy of it&#039;s heavy application in such places (compared to silver), significant to say the least in the elongated form of the Sleeping Buddha of <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat_Pho" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat_Pho" rel="nofollow">Wat Po</a></b> in Bangkok, Thailand, for instance:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]172203.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The high altar of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seville_Cathedral" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seville_Cathedral" rel="nofollow">Cathedral of Seville</a> is another such decadent place dripping with gold. </p><p><br /></p><p>My overall point is that when we discuss precious metals eye appeal as this thread means to do in terms of coinage or bullion, when metals are applied decoratively (e.g. in art objects or ritual objects) and we are not talking about metals in a monetary sense, eye appeal takes on a whole other set of definitions, wholly subjective to the individual and none more right than the other. With coins/bullion we can attempt to be more objective and break down metals to their science, but still when the OP asks for &quot;better&quot; they are still limiting this to personal preference. To that (above in my earlier post) I sought more clarity and found it very difficult to separate the influence of an alloy&#039;s influence (copper in silver, silver in gold or copper in gold coins) and a coins size (dimensions) to any final determination, in such limited silver vs. gold decision.&nbsp; :smile[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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