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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 625074, member: 13650&quot;]jakal,</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; I don&#039;t know anything about these types of coins but I can tell you that if you think they truly are gold, you can buy a gold purity testing kit on ebay for around $20.00.&nbsp;&nbsp; I bought one and they work good.&nbsp; It&#039;s the same thing a jeweler would use.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp; All the kit is, is a piece of stone with fine grit, and a few bottles of chemicals.&nbsp; You would rub the edge of one of these coins lightly on the stone, leaving behind a very small, but visible line of gold flakes.&nbsp;&nbsp; Then you just put a drop of 22k solution on the line.&nbsp; &nbsp; Some loose flakes may come up in the drop but if you can still see the line, it is 22k gold.&nbsp; If the line immediately turns brown and dissolves away leaving a clear spot, it is not 22k grade.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp; You can try each k rating down the line.&nbsp; Next you could try 18,14, and finally 10.&nbsp; If the 10k dissolves the line, then you know it&#039;s very impure gold if it&#039;s gold at all.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp; This is a very simple and cheap test.&nbsp;&nbsp; How about getting one and checking back with us, eh?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp; It&#039;s not a matter of trusting you.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s just that most people here are well educated and we&#039;ve seen so many of these Cinderella stories come and go where somebody thought they really had something rare, and then it was proven to be fake.&nbsp;&nbsp; There are counterfeits of everything out there.&nbsp;&nbsp; The Chinese are counterfeiting everything, legally these days.&nbsp;&nbsp; Including common silver quarters and dimes.&nbsp; &nbsp; So there&#039;s no reason to believe that somebody wouldn&#039;t have or couldn&#039;t have counterfeited these crudely designed (compared to modern standards) ducats over the last 4 centuries.&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp; It has also been brought to my attention in the past that weights of coins had much closer tolerances hundreds of years ago than they do today.&nbsp; In other words, there is no way a real coin that was supposed to be 3.5 ended up being an extra .18 worth of gold on accident.&nbsp;&nbsp; It just would not have happened.&nbsp;&nbsp; I think that is the point GD is trying to make.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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