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Message:: [QUOTE="TOKENHUNTER, post: 1949793, member: 37910"]You people are kind of strange. I'm feeling a lot of sarcasm and nastiness here. My only intention was to put something on the web to confirm the dead tone character of a Maple for someone else who may notice and think, "Weird, is this normal?" That's it. I am a musician and when I noticed the difference between how some gold coins sound and others don't, I thought it was strange. I did not post these audio file pics as any kind of benchmark for testing the authenticity of a coin! I wanted to post them for a reference so people who are unaware of these differences can hear them, but visual will have to do. That's it. You know, NO ONE has an inexpensive, reliable way of confirming the authenticity of a gold coin. Except with a drill bit. If you do a sonic test, it's my understanding there is no one device to test for each kind of counterfeit metal. Don't start going on about cymbals, I know musical instruments. Yes, cymbals are made of different blends of metals, different shapes and thicknesses - but 95% of them have a similar sound - they sound SOMETHING like a cymbal. What prompted this whole thing for me was that a Maple sounds like a piece of meat when struck (exagg.) and I wondered how it could be SO different than a coin made of the same thing, mostly. I don't know metallurgy, obviously. I still think it's a valid observation.[/QUOTE]