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<p>[QUOTE="desertgem, post: 1684840, member: 15199"]There is a difference between hardness ( point indentation ) procedure, which is determined by the surface of the alloy., and the ductile elasticity which would be bending. Then, the thickness of the sample and how much the metal was 'work hardened' by the striking of the coin, etc, affects the results. There is a rather obscure paper ( translated) which approaches this problem from a hard to understand methodology. The end result tends to say ( If all things were exactly the same, except the molecular basis silver -gold) that silver would bend easier than gold. IMO.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.iaeng.org/publication/IMECS2011/IMECS2011_pp1221-1224.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.iaeng.org/publication/IMECS2011/IMECS2011_pp1221-1224.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.iaeng.org/publication/IMECS2011/IMECS2011_pp1221-1224.pdf</a></p><p><br /></p><p>With all of the factors NOT the same between the 2 coins, You would have to do it experimentally and define it as a .999 Ag silver eagle and a .9xx Gold eagle or whatever.</p><p><br /></p><p>Jim[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="desertgem, post: 1684840, member: 15199"]There is a difference between hardness ( point indentation ) procedure, which is determined by the surface of the alloy., and the ductile elasticity which would be bending. Then, the thickness of the sample and how much the metal was 'work hardened' by the striking of the coin, etc, affects the results. There is a rather obscure paper ( translated) which approaches this problem from a hard to understand methodology. The end result tends to say ( If all things were exactly the same, except the molecular basis silver -gold) that silver would bend easier than gold. IMO. [URL]http://www.iaeng.org/publication/IMECS2011/IMECS2011_pp1221-1224.pdf[/URL] With all of the factors NOT the same between the 2 coins, You would have to do it experimentally and define it as a .999 Ag silver eagle and a .9xx Gold eagle or whatever. Jim[/QUOTE]
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