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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Michael Terry, post: 2319718, member: 76710&quot;]The color of the tone is nice. About 15 years ago I used to make gold nugget jewelry. When I finished with what I made I would gold plate it with 18K even thought the nuggets I were using assayed higher than 18K. By plating&nbsp; the finished jewelry it made it look a lot nicer.</p><p>When you read the books or listen to people talking they say that gold does not tarnish. That is a false statement. If it is 24K then it does not Tarnish.</p><p>14k/24K is 58 percent gold. 10K/24k is 41.6 percent gold. Now some of you are wondering </p><p>Where this is going, just hang on a second. The lower Karat gold can have various types of other</p><p>Metals, most of the time the highest other metal is copper with some nickel. Just for general information, 99 percent of all high school rings are made by Balfour and they are only 10K</p><p>Gold, unless you special order them and pay more too get 14K.</p><p>Any way I have a small box of 10K rings that I bought back in the 1970&#039;S and since they were not</p><p>Worn for so many years they just laid in the box and tarnished. I tried all the usual methods to clean them butI just could not get that original luster back. So I ordered a cheap 14K gold plated kit off EBay for 25.00. Now all the rings look nice now and I can display them along side with a bunch of other things that I collect. Now back to the Kenndy half dollar, not long ago&nbsp; I wondered what it would</p><p>Look like if I gold plated a coin. So I used a 1964 Kenndy half to try it out.</p><p>I dipped it in the solution for about 5 seconds and it came out with a real light gold color. So I just kept dipping to see how far I could go. When I finished both sides look just like the back of your </p><p>Half. I just thought too myself, this day and age people have no scruples about trying anything,</p><p>so it got me to thinking there is more than likely some people out there doing this so they can get a higher price for there coins. End of story Good Day.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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