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<p>[QUOTE="rrdenarius, post: 3219290, member: 75525"]I think Kentucky has the best idea. </p><p>That said, I bought a Brutium Punic 3/8th Shekel and wanted to confirm it was electrum. The coin looked too silver to me. I did a SpGr test. I think the test confirmed gold in the mix. It is hard to say without XRF analysis what is in the coin. You can see my results here:</p><p><a href="http://rrdenarius.blogspot.com/2018/06/spgr-to-estimate-gold-content-of.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://rrdenarius.blogspot.com/2018/06/spgr-to-estimate-gold-content-of.html" rel="nofollow">http://rrdenarius.blogspot.com/2018/06/spgr-to-estimate-gold-content-of.html</a> </p><p><br /></p><p>and in cointalk here:</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/spgr-to-estimate-the-gold-content-of-an-electrum-coin.317989/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/spgr-to-estimate-the-gold-content-of-an-electrum-coin.317989/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/spgr-to-estimate-the-gold-content-of-an-electrum-coin.317989/</a> </p><p><br /></p><p>Light source changes the yellow tint of my electrum coin.</p><p>[ATTACH]837721[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]837722[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]837723[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]837724[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="rrdenarius, post: 3219290, member: 75525"]I think Kentucky has the best idea. That said, I bought a Brutium Punic 3/8th Shekel and wanted to confirm it was electrum. The coin looked too silver to me. I did a SpGr test. I think the test confirmed gold in the mix. It is hard to say without XRF analysis what is in the coin. You can see my results here: [url]http://rrdenarius.blogspot.com/2018/06/spgr-to-estimate-gold-content-of.html[/url] and in cointalk here: [url]https://www.cointalk.com/threads/spgr-to-estimate-the-gold-content-of-an-electrum-coin.317989/[/url] Light source changes the yellow tint of my electrum coin. [ATTACH]837721[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]837722[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]837723[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]837724[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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