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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 2253682, member: 71234&quot;]<i>I think we should admit there&#039;s a huge potential for monetary gain for doing so</i></p><p><br /></p><p>For modern coins the gain would be trivial, in money, even compared with the profits they make selling modern coins to collectors, the only,&nbsp; and relatively small market for them.</p><p>Consider, also the potential downside when it becomes common knowledge, as the Volkswagon diesel emissions test is for VAG.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallurgical_assay" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallurgical_assay" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallurgical_assay</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Many people have spent a lot of time assaying all types of precious object. I think if there had been any duck-shoving going on it would be common knowledge by now. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d bet&nbsp; 10 kilos of silver to a wooden nickel that in general (excluding what Borogrovia might have done in 1825, or other obscure occurrence), that silver and gold coins of the last 200 years have always had the legally mandated metal content.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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