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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;harrync, post: 8279574, member: 58588&quot;]I thinned out my bullion gold hoard recently. What did I keep? Mostly 19th century 10 and 20 coronas. Also a few Hungarian - same weight. I figure not even the Chinese would counterfeit them, so any competent dealer would accept them as real with no problem. Of course I would have to sell at a discount to bullion. And I admit I paid a whopping 15% premium over bullion when I bought them - $4 each for the 10&#039;s, $8 for the 20&#039;s. [Yeh, that was a while back, and I didn&#039;t have a license to buy bullion.]</p><p>During the Hunt brothers silver debacle in 1979, for no good reason I could figure, gold went along for the ride. I was selling $20&#039;s to a major dealer. One day I go in and he says two of that last batch were counterfeit. I say I will buy them back. He says, too late, they are already in the melting pot. They were full weight, full fineness Lebanese fakes. The refiner didn&#039;t care if they were fake. So sometimes counterfeit is not a problem!</p><p>Back around 2010, I was trying to sell a 2 escudo of the Central American Republic. A nice one would have been in the neighborhood of $1000, but this was removed from jewelry. Couldn&#039;t get $300 for it. Two years later, gold is up to about $1700/oz, sold for $325 - bullion value. I guess that qualifies as &quot;junk gold&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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