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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 7837522, member: 59677&quot;]A lot of high-value fakes are made of correct (or low carat) gold or silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you are selling it for 10x the intrinsic value, it looks better and, well, it&#039;s a modest additional cost.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is true all the way back at least to the Lebanese fakes in the 70s and 80s. They used run-of-the-pot scrap gold, everything from 10kt to 18kt. It wasn&#039;t the 22.4kt of the 0.900 fine, but it looks pretty ok unless you use odd alloys.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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