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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 3086119, member: 27832&quot;]<a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/2018-Cook-Island-5-00-1-10-oz-24-Pure-Gold-Statue-Of-Liberty-Sealed-Coin/123143840722" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/2018-Cook-Island-5-00-1-10-oz-24-Pure-Gold-Statue-Of-Liberty-Sealed-Coin/123143840722" rel="nofollow">2018 Cook Island $5.00 1/10 oz .24 Pure Gold Statue Of Liberty Sealed Coin</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s right -- you get a 1/10 ounce gold coin, containing not 1/10 ounce of gold, but .024 ounce of gold, or less than <b>one-quarter of a tenth of an ounce</b>. (&quot;Emphasized&quot; in <i>anti</i>-bold print in the description; we wouldn&#039;t want to <i>mislead</i> anyone by picking a fineness that just <i>happens</i> to be the same number associated with &quot;pure 24-karat gold&quot;.)</p><p><br /></p><p>For $149.50. A reasonable price for an <i>actual</i> tenth-ounce of gold, although I&#039;d hold out for better.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: I just now noticed how the seller chose to <i>abbreviate</i> Statue of Liberty in the description; mods, please don&#039;t hurt me, it&#039;s a direct quote. And it <i>is</i> an abbreviation of Statue of Liberty, I assume, not a comment about any buyer&#039;s status should they one day try to get their money back out of the coin...</p><p><br /></p><p><b>And they&#039;re. Selling. Like. HOTCAKES.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>To be fair, they come with a very official Certificate of Authenticity, certified by... well, I won&#039;t go into who signed it, because they&#039;re political figures. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie4" alt=":mad:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Let&#039;s just say that their decision to do so does them no credit, in my opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>I remember complaining about this a couple of years ago. Apparently it&#039;s lucrative enough to justify a 2018 issue. I don&#039;t suppose there&#039;s any end in sight. Sigh...</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: Mods, I just noticed how the seller chose to abbreviate Statue of Liberty in the description. It&#039;s a direct quote, and it&#039;s clear from context that it&#039;s short for Statue of Liberty, not a snarky comment on buyers who ever try to get their money back out of the coin...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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