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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 8210248, member: 115909&quot;]Is that solid gold or gilding? </p><p><br /></p><p>If it isn’t gilded I wonder what the purity is. Like if it’s crown gold or .999 fine or what?</p><p><br /></p><p>What I find really interesting about this is that it’s very similar to something the Athenians did. They made these gold statues of the gods as a way to store the wealth of the treasury and when they desperately needed money in a crisis they would chop bits off and melt them down for coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If I recall correctly the one I read about was gold but I can’t imagine any reason why they wouldn’t do the same with silver. They could melt it down as well and mint tetradrachms.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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