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<p>[QUOTE="Michael K, post: 3452585, member: 78298"]Well, with the first piece (the religious medallion) it was completely roached. I tried to clean it and couldn't. So even when I saw the 14K I was very doubtful it was real, as gold shines up easily and will hold it's luster. I took it to my gold guy and he scratch tested it and said it was brass. In fact he said it was tri metal. Brass, copper and nickel silver. He then took some nitric acid, and cleaned it up, AND IT LOOKS GREAT now. The second piece I knew it was also brass, but I took it and and again he cleaned it with nitric acid (no charge). I did sell a lot of gold there and even bought some silver coins, so I am a customer, but it was nice of him to clean up those pieces which looked much better when he was done. I also have 2 fake silver pieces that are stamped and they are junk. Bad photo, but you get the idea:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]917735[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Michael K, post: 3452585, member: 78298"]Well, with the first piece (the religious medallion) it was completely roached. I tried to clean it and couldn't. So even when I saw the 14K I was very doubtful it was real, as gold shines up easily and will hold it's luster. I took it to my gold guy and he scratch tested it and said it was brass. In fact he said it was tri metal. Brass, copper and nickel silver. He then took some nitric acid, and cleaned it up, AND IT LOOKS GREAT now. The second piece I knew it was also brass, but I took it and and again he cleaned it with nitric acid (no charge). I did sell a lot of gold there and even bought some silver coins, so I am a customer, but it was nice of him to clean up those pieces which looked much better when he was done. I also have 2 fake silver pieces that are stamped and they are junk. Bad photo, but you get the idea: [ATTACH=full]917735[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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