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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;catbox_9, post: 193003, member: 7344&quot;]You addressed most of my points pretty well. A couple follow-ups:</p><p>Although the AGE/APE/ASEs are legal tender and everything, most people have no idea what they are. I&#039;d be wiling to bet if you pulled out a 1/10 oz. AGE and tried to buy a $4.99 Big Mac and Fries the cashier wouldn&#039;t accept it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Back to the gold plating I understand gold is very expensive but they make lots of gold-plated things and I think that it takes almost no gold to plate something. I think even a gram would last for tons and tons of coins and scraping it off would be pointless. Pennies (or, more precisely, cents) are copper plated and nobody tries to take the copper coating off because there is virtually no copper on a penny. They could also try a gold plug like the really old cents (1792) used to do with silver. Make the plug really tiny so that it takes about $.03-.10 to make. Since it&#039;s a dollar coin they could afford to spend a few cents on the gold.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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