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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2236929, member: 112&quot;]You really think that&#039;s an honest comparison ?</p><p><br /></p><p>When the gold and copper are melted to mix together and form the alloy, that&#039;s all that happens, the 2 metals get mixed together. But the individual metals do not change each other, the gold still remains gold, and the copper still remains copper. You simply have a given percentage of one and a given percentage of the other mixed together.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>edit - I&#039;ll give you this much Dick. When the copper and gold are in their molten state and mixed together, yes the color of the gold will change to a slightly darker shade due to the mixing. In other words if you put 90% gold next to pure gold the 90% is going to be a darker shade than the pure gold. But once the metal hardens that color is fixed.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>In order for that color to change after that, toning must occur. But if it is true that gold cannot tone then it simply cannot tone. So if only 25% of the surface of a gold coin is a metal that can tone, then only 25% of that surface can be any color other than that of pure gold. It&#039;s just that simple. If the one thing (that gold cannot tone) is true then the other thing (the percentage of the coin that can tone a color other than that of gold) must also be true.</p><p><br /></p><p>So when you look at a coin and almost the entire surface of that coin is a color other than of pure gold, then it cannot be true that gold does not tone.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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