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<p>[QUOTE="Owle, post: 1379080, member: 22004"]We had a lead one once, it must have been fake, before the days when it was required to print "COPY" on fakes, because it is, you know, against the law, but one of the reasons for the proliferation of all the beautiful fakes is to give coin dealers and the grading services something to do and joke about.</p><p><br /></p><p>And lead almost weighs as much as gold per volume, there may be some chemists who could verify that. And there is the old question what weighs more, a pound of feathers, lead or gold, and the average little school boy or girl will answer "the same!"</p><p><br /></p><p>Not so. Actually the gold weighs the least, because it is weighed according to a different measure, I seem to recall seeing that proved in the Monty Python movie where they are in a search for the Holy Grail. And if you will excuse me my keepers are coming, they have a capsule prepared for yours truly, the men in the white coats...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Owle, post: 1379080, member: 22004"]We had a lead one once, it must have been fake, before the days when it was required to print "COPY" on fakes, because it is, you know, against the law, but one of the reasons for the proliferation of all the beautiful fakes is to give coin dealers and the grading services something to do and joke about. And lead almost weighs as much as gold per volume, there may be some chemists who could verify that. And there is the old question what weighs more, a pound of feathers, lead or gold, and the average little school boy or girl will answer "the same!" Not so. Actually the gold weighs the least, because it is weighed according to a different measure, I seem to recall seeing that proved in the Monty Python movie where they are in a search for the Holy Grail. And if you will excuse me my keepers are coming, they have a capsule prepared for yours truly, the men in the white coats...[/QUOTE]
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