Is it really gold?

"Peter Irwin" wrote in message ...
What is unusual is that the forgery business is more or less legal
and open in China and that none of the world's economic powers
are interested in giving the Chinese government any incentive to stop

I say nuke 'em!

"Petronius" wrote in message
...

"Peter Irwin" wrote in message
...
What is unusual is that the forgery business is more or less legal
and open in China and that none of the world's economic powers
are interested in giving the Chinese government any incentive to stop

I say nuke 'em!

Sorry. As life threatening as the counterfeit threat is, we always use
diplomacy with countries who can nuke us back. Military action is reserved
only for those countries where the results would be pretty much a slam dunk
in our favor. And then we even seem to blow that.

On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:37:43 -0500, Lee
wrote:

I was watching that gold commercial Gordon Liddy does for Roseland Capital.
At the end he shuffled a handful of gold coins from one hand to the other.
They sounded like a handful of plastic to me so I was wondering about it? Was
he shuffling real Gold Coins?

I haven't seen the commercial, and I doubt if I could tell by looking
even if I did. But I don't see any reason why they'd use plastic, so
my guess is what you are hearing is the result of either bad sound
effects or bad sound mixing.

Come to think of it, the gold coins currently offered for sale at
Roseland are .9999 fine gold, so they are comparatively soft. I don't
have the least idea what two of them clinking together _would_ sound
like. And since I only own one gold "coin" of that purity, I'm not
about to experiment.

http://wemightneedthat.biz/Images/HighReliefObverse.jpg

--
Mike Benveniste -- (Clarification Required)
Don't succumb to the false authority of a tool or model. There
is no substitute for thinking.

On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:16:05 -0500, Michael Benveniste wrote
(in article ):

On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:37:43 -0500, Lee
wrote:

I was watching that gold commercial Gordon Liddy does for Roseland Capital.
At the end he shuffled a handful of gold coins from one hand to the other.
They sounded like a handful of plastic to me so I was wondering about it?
Was
he shuffling real Gold Coins?

I haven't seen the commercial, and I doubt if I could tell by looking
even if I did. But I don't see any reason why they'd use plastic, so
my guess is what you are hearing is the result of either bad sound
effects or bad sound mixing.

Come to think of it, the gold coins currently offered for sale at
Roseland are .9999 fine gold, so they are comparatively soft. I don't
have the least idea what two of them clinking together _would_ sound
like. And since I only own one gold "coin" of that purity, I'm not
about to experiment.

http://wemightneedthat.biz/Images/HighReliefObverse.jpg



Thanks. This helps.

Lee

rarebirdyatverizondotnet

Park Ridge, NJ

On Jan 19, 1:39*pm, Peter Irwin wrote:
Mr. Jaggers lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote:
Peter wrote:

http://www.tungsten-alloy.com/en/alloy11.htm

is worth a look. *Our esteemed colleagues from China have most
interesting ideas.

Curses, foiled again. *But then, whom does one trust? *It seems that the
world is headed in the direction of increasing sham, pretense, and
artificiality. *And all of it is sanitized and whitewashed by the glitter
and sparkle of a bold webpage.

There has always been sham, pretense and artificiality. One hundred
years ago, people made fake gold coins by wrapping platinum in gold.
Only the rise in the price of platinum put a stop to it. I had
until recently regarded doing the trick with tungsten as being beyond
the capabilities of counterfeiters.

What is unusual is that the forgery business is more or less legal
and open in China and that none of the world's economic powers
are interested in giving the Chinese government any incentive to stop
it.

Peter
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Note that the link I supplied is only one of several Chinese offering
to prepare tricky counterfeit coins with Tungsten. Interestingly,
there is some evidence that they are not so inclined to tangle with
Canada as with the US.

Peter wrote:

Note that the link I supplied is only one of several Chinese offering
to prepare tricky counterfeit coins with Tungsten. Interestingly,
there is some evidence that they are not so inclined to tangle with
Canada as with the US.

If there is one nice thing I can say about Harper as PM, it is that
he says what he means and he means what he says. This seems a rare
trait in a politician, and if he hangs in long enough this may give
him some advantages in diplomacy for a man who seems so undiplomatic.

Peter.
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