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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CaptHenway, post: 3956636, member: 13813&quot;]Exactly. Back in the mid-1980&#039;s there was a company advertising by mail a two-medal set, one was described as .999 fine silver, the other as .99% gold, or literally less than one percent gold. The picture showed them as the same size, so obviously the &quot;gold&quot; one was just the silver one with a heavy gold plating. The price was basically the price of one ounce of gold, implying it was solid gold but not actually saying so.</p><p><br /></p><p>I tried to take it to the Chicago Postal Inspector to complain, but they said that I could not file a complaint unless I had bought one and been defrauded. Screw that.</p><p><br /></p><p>A few years later somebody came into the coin shop with a set to sell. I did a specific gravity test on the &quot;gold&quot; one in front of him to prove that it was just silver, and he said &quot;But I thought it was gold!&quot; He and his wife left very disappointed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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