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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1414287, member: 19463"]The troublesome part here is that 'experts' can't tell gold from brass. Anyone who has been around gold should recognize that it wears in a smooth flowing pattern and does not corrode with pits and patina in any way similar to copper alloys. Gold is sufficiently heavier than copper that picking up a piece makes you say 'heavy'. We can be fooled by gold plated platinum or maybe even lead but the OP coin here should remind one of a US half cent or perhaps two stacked together but not like a $10 gold piece. 'All that glitters is not gold' but, more to the point, 'if it looks like rotten copper, it is not gold either'.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1414287, member: 19463"]The troublesome part here is that 'experts' can't tell gold from brass. Anyone who has been around gold should recognize that it wears in a smooth flowing pattern and does not corrode with pits and patina in any way similar to copper alloys. Gold is sufficiently heavier than copper that picking up a piece makes you say 'heavy'. We can be fooled by gold plated platinum or maybe even lead but the OP coin here should remind one of a US half cent or perhaps two stacked together but not like a $10 gold piece. 'All that glitters is not gold' but, more to the point, 'if it looks like rotten copper, it is not gold either'.[/QUOTE]
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