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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2175282, member: 19463&quot;]I have very little experience with &#039;gold&#039; but I am stricken with the terms people apply to gold colors as if those were the choices.&nbsp; Ancient gold was not made from metals blended according to a modern recipe for red gold, green gold or whatever.&nbsp; A lot of the color of gold comes from the metals used in the alloy and anything under 12k is less than 50% gold so it really makes a difference what those metals are and how those metals have weathered the ages and any volcanic activity, for example, they may have experienced.&nbsp; In the jewelry business, few people want gold anything like the purity of ancient coins.&nbsp; Coins as impure as most jewelry are not called &#039;gold&#039; but things like &#039;electrum&#039;.&nbsp; The one that bothers me is &#039;white gold&#039; which usually gets rhodium plating so you can&#039;t see the gold.&nbsp; Right?&nbsp;&nbsp; I have spent very little effort on gold colors since I have so few coins.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]420542[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]420543[/ATTACH] </p><p>electrum well under half gold</p><p>[ATTACH=full]420544[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I once was proud of the image below showing the same coin lighted differently.&nbsp; I really need to dig it out and try again.</p><p><img src="http://www.pbase.com/dougsmit/image/114684283.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>The one below is a favorite gold color of mine.&nbsp; It is called &#039;dirty gold&#039;.&nbsp; Jewelry and vases get cleaned too often to ever get such a layer of grime.</p><p><img src="http://www.pbase.com/dougsmit/image/140681423.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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