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> Harder to counterfeit How do you counterfeit gold? Alchemy?
by dangerface 7y ago
> Harder to counterfeit
How do you counterfeit gold? Alchemy?
- bhandziuk 7y agoYou can turn it into a sheet and wrap it around lesser metals.
- logfromblammo 7y agoTungsten, mainly. Anti-counterfeit testing now includes ringing the purportedly gold coin like a bell, if it passes the density test. A clad-tungsten counterfeit will have a duller, less sonorous sound. This is where all those hours of listening to drummers drone on and on about the metallurgical qualities of cymbal brass--and the audible differences between Paiste, Sabian, and Zildjian--can come in handy.
- Izkata 7y agoPyrite (aka "fool's gold"), if we're talking about the average person rather than someone who knows well how to test it.