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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1978728, member: 112&quot;]As recently as the late 1500&#039;s some coins were still made of pure gold. Here&#039;s an example - </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]352659[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]352660[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And even a thousand years ago they had the ability to choose any fineness of gold they desired and accurately produce it, and consistently so, to within 3 decimal places - just like we do today. In other words they could choose to make the purity of the gold .986 or .983 or .999 or whatever they wanted it to be. What&#039;s more they had the ability to determine the fineness of said gold in minted coins in literally seconds. Something that most would be hard pressed to do today even with our advanced technology.</p><p><br /></p><p>Many people think that just because it was a long time ago that they didn&#039;t have the ability to do these things -but they did. When it comes to the use, minting, and refining of gold, to a large degree we have forgotten more today than they knew <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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