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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;HAGOP, post: 2269652, member: 15007&quot;]I have been member of CoinTalk since 2008, I&#039;m a lebanese numismatist and also the author of a book related to Tokens of Lebanon.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would like to inform you all, what is happening in Beirut.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the past three years, The gold notes were issued as Limited Edition by the Central Bank of Lebanon (Banque Du Liban) described in the COA as &quot;Created from a sheet of 99,99% Pure Gold&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>During the last 3 years, we have seen 10 different issues of these notes, collectors bought these notes without receiving any invoice.</p><p><br /></p><p>The ones who had limited issue of 2000 pcs were sold at 150$.</p><p>Some of them had a shorter print run of 200 pcs and they were sold at $666.</p><p><br /></p><p>Many novice collectors were misled thinking that they were buying bullion. (see the certificate)</p><p><br /></p><p>Usually all the issues were &quot;Sold Out&quot; and the next day were available in the black market, The ones priced at 150$ were sold at 250$-300$ in the black market, while the ones priced at $666 were sold for $1000 in the black market, while these were housed in the acrylic displays come with serial numbers, many collectors paid too much premium for what so called &quot;Golden Numbers&quot; or &quot;Special Serial Numbers&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The CAO tells you about the fineness of the precious metal (99,99%) while it never defines you the exact content of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>What&#039;s more funny that some collectors were told that these gold notes contains at least 1 gram of PURE GOLD.</p><p><br /></p><p>After hearing that many people tested their Gold Banknote and they were really disappointed to find out that their note was made of Plastic Body &amp; Nylon Cover.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wanted to test the example I owned, which I have bought it directly from the central bank in 2013.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have used many methods,</p><p>The most important one was :</p><p>With a simple light (Clipper Type), I have burnt it, instead of resisting, their &quot;sheet of 99,99% pure gold&quot; was burnt !</p><p>As we all know, that Gold starts melt at 1064 Celsius.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is there any difference of between the &quot;Gold Notes&quot; Selling at Alibaba.com &amp; Ebay.com for 0.30 cents to 2$ and The ones offered for sale by our dear Central Bank ?</p><p><br /></p><p>I have did an amateur youtube video to show the collectors of what are they made of, also a TV report that I appear in it explaining the contents of the item, while a gold shop owner also uses another method of gold testing, and refuses that these items are gold.</p><p>The TV channel contacted many times to BDL to get their opinions too about the item...Unfortunately they delayed their meetings.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was only after it went to the NEWS, Banque Du Liban replied us : GOLD NOTES Contain 99,99% of Pure Gold as the Certificate says (PS Certificate says that &quot;Created from&quot; not &quot;Contains&quot;) and the gold inside these gold notes can only be tested by EDX method (Energy Dispersive X-ray).</p><p><br /></p><p>This was our Central Banks reply.</p><p><br /></p><p>Today,I am hearing rumors saying that there is a plan that the Central Bank will reveal the results of an EDX test to prove the Fantasy Gold in their item, so then I stopped and be in jail,because I have revealed the Plastic &amp; the Nylon in their item and talking about their item with MORE DETAILS.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please share my message to all the international collectors societies &amp; communities.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some of them are aware of this already...</p><p><br /></p><p>As a serious collector, it is my right to know what am I exactly collecting !</p><p><br /></p><p>In case I will be stopped, will you the collectors of United Stated support me ?</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the TV Report :</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]ND6QYcF5bzg[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>And here is a Newspaper article :</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2015/Nov-05/321695-bdl-under-spotlight-after-gold-bill-fraud-claims.ashx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2015/Nov-05/321695-bdl-under-spotlight-after-gold-bill-fraud-claims.ashx" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2015/Nov-05/321695-bdl-under-spotlight-after-gold-bill-fraud-claims.ashx</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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