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<p>[QUOTE="jtlee321, post: 7840636, member: 73983"]Oh I can for sure. But, the color difference is due to the fact that AGE 91.67% gold not 99.9%. The Canadian Maple Leaf is 99.99%. Most modern gold bullion coins are minted using 99.99% pure gold rather than the 99.9% because the cost to refine to (4) 9's is low. Plus as I mentioned earlier in this post, the finer the metal the more metal you actually get as the mass increases. a 100 oz .999 gold bar would have 1/10 oz of other metals. So it would only have 99.9 oz of pure gold and .1 oz of copper and silver and other trace metals. A 100 oz .9999 gold bar will have 99.99 oz of pure gold and have 0.01 oz of copper and silver and other trace metals. That's a roughly $180.00 difference.</p><p><br /></p><p>I agree with you that .9999 is superior to .999, but not because it appears any different. There is 0 difference visually between the two.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="jtlee321, post: 7840636, member: 73983"]Oh I can for sure. But, the color difference is due to the fact that AGE 91.67% gold not 99.9%. The Canadian Maple Leaf is 99.99%. Most modern gold bullion coins are minted using 99.99% pure gold rather than the 99.9% because the cost to refine to (4) 9's is low. Plus as I mentioned earlier in this post, the finer the metal the more metal you actually get as the mass increases. a 100 oz .999 gold bar would have 1/10 oz of other metals. So it would only have 99.9 oz of pure gold and .1 oz of copper and silver and other trace metals. A 100 oz .9999 gold bar will have 99.99 oz of pure gold and have 0.01 oz of copper and silver and other trace metals. That's a roughly $180.00 difference. I agree with you that .9999 is superior to .999, but not because it appears any different. There is 0 difference visually between the two.[/QUOTE]
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