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Message:: [QUOTE="CaptHenway, post: 3956636, member: 13813"]Exactly. Back in the mid-1980'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 "gold" 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. 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. A few years later somebody came into the coin shop with a set to sell. I did a specific gravity test on the "gold" one in front of him to prove that it was just silver, and he said "But I thought it was gold!" He and his wife left very disappointed.[/QUOTE]