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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bacchus, post: 42673, member: 759&quot;]As Doug suggested, I would think you could look up the weight and dimensions of another gold coin, such as a one-ounce Gold Eagle.&nbsp; If you see that the Gold Eagle has smaller dimensions than your Ike but has greater weight than your Ike, then you can be sure that your coin is not solid gold; otherwise, since it is bigger, it should weigh more than the Eagle.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don’t have my Red Book in front of me, but I’m sure an AGE is smaller than an Ike.&nbsp; The weight for an AGE must be 1 oz Troy x 24/22 (22 carat gold) = 1.09 oz Troy = 33.9 grams.&nbsp; Since your coin only weighs 31.8 grams, and it is <i>bigger </i>than an AGE, it can’t be solid gold.</p><p><br /></p><p>As Roy suggested, a specific-gravity test should also be pretty conclusive, unless someone went to the trouble of making a coin with just enough metal heavier than gold (uranium ?) and just enough metal lighter than gold to make the same coin volume equal to a gold coin in weight; pretty unlikely, unless you have evidence of someone actually trying to sell gold Ikes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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