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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1101302, member: 112&quot;]Not true. You just repeat the same steps.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Think of it this way, if they could pick and choose and make gold of any fineness they wanted, down to the thousandth, and do it consistently. Then why does it seem that it would be diffucult to make .999 gold ?</p><p><br /></p><p>The Venetians started minting their gold ducats in 1274. Every single coin was precisely .986 gold. They made them exact fineness for over 700 years, every single coin. Pretty much the entire known world, over 300 countries, copied the ducat and they also issued their own ducats - all of them .986 gold. The Netherlands today still issues a ducat of the same design that they have used since 1586. And in medieval times, up until the 1600&#039;s anyway, many countries issued coins that even today listed as being 1.000 gold.</p><p><br /></p><p>It wasn&#039;t ever that they didn&#039;t have the technology. They purposely <u>chose</u> the fineness of their gold coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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