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The serendipitous discovery occurred after various clients of the company had requested that their gold be stored not in a safe, but in a far more secure place: "buried under an oak tree." As the website of IRPS president German Sterligoff notes: once buried, "the coins began to oxidize under the influence of moisture."
Perhaps the burial introduced some sort of surface contaminant?
<< <i>And hence the headscratcher: nowhere in history (that we know of) does 999, and even 925 gold, oxidize, rust, stain, spot or form patinas, under any conditions. >>
It could be copper spots... hard to say from the picture. However, if sold as .999 pure, certainly there should not be an abundance of the phenomenon. Cheers, RickO
I wonder if it is chromium chloride or even the oxide from the die surface? (I know -- the oxide is green...but green and orange make....) The color is right for the chloride, and chlorine is available in the planchet cleaning process.
Probably surface stains/contamination from external sources due to improper storage. That's my guess. I wonder if those coins can be cleaned up with acetone or E-Z-Est coin dip.
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The serendipitous discovery occurred after various clients of the company had requested that their gold be stored not in a safe, but in a far more secure place: "buried under an oak tree." As the website of IRPS president German Sterligoff notes: once buried, "the coins began to oxidize under the influence of moisture."
Perhaps the burial introduced some sort of surface contaminant?
<< <i>Copper spot? >>
I seen the same thing on US Gold, smaller tho.
<< <i>And hence the headscratcher: nowhere in history (that we know of) does 999, and even 925 gold, oxidize, rust, stain, spot or form patinas, under any conditions. >>
And so it must be so.
it's all a conspiracy
<< <i>Reads like one of those "loose nutz" sites. >>
LMAO X's 10
Good one and exactly what I thought
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The color is right for the chloride, and chlorine is available in the planchet cleaning process.
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