Are Olympic Gold Medals really made of Gold? or is it just plated with silver underneath.

roastedcat

Heres an interesting article I read today on Yahoo, I always thought those Olympic medals were made of solid gold, I guess not.

Olympic Gold Medals

>>>>"Not counting labor, the metal content alone for the Athens medals comes to more than $400,000, and the gold medals are not even pure gold. Not that the International Olympic Committee (news - web sites) was considering solid gold medals -- the last medals of pure gold were awarded in Stockholm in 1912.

Nowadays, gold medals are actually made of silver, with a coating of six grams (about one-fifth of an ounce) of gold -- about $83 worth at current prices. "<<<<

Jery

ss350camaro

i think they're gold plated brass

kieferscoins

Title: Are Olympic Gold Medals really made of Gold? or is it just plated with silver underneath.

You answered your own question:



<< <i>Nowadays, gold medals are actually made of silver, with a coating of six grams (about one-fifth of an ounce) of gold -- about $83 worth at current prices >>



Cameron Kiefer

rottnrog

I think I read somewhere that they are gold plated silver.

prooflike

Are the bronze medals bronze-plated silver ??

Bear

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MSD61

The Greek firm Efsimon manufactured 986 gold, 986 silver and 1,150 bronze medals out of 28 pounds of gold and a ton each of silver and bronze. The Greek artist Elena Votsi carved a new design for the medals to mark the return of the Games to Greece.

The front of each medal shows a winged Nike, the Greek goddess of victory, alighting in the horseshoe-shaped Panathinaikos stadium in Athens, where the first modern Olympics was held in 1896. The Parthenon rises in the distance.

On the flip side is a flaming Olympic torch and an ancient Greek ode to the Games, penned by Pindar: ``O Mother of Gleaming Crowns of Contest, Olympia, Queen of Truth.''

The truth is, the gold medals are really just silver medals dipped in a 6-grams coating of gold - about $82 worth.
Yes my friend your own first post was correct!

ss350camaro

<< <i> Brass my ass, they are gold plated on silver. >>



Obviously you didn't see the " i think they are........"

Weiss

A gold medal from the 1992 Barcelona games sold for $3,500 yesterday on eBay. There's a bronze from the 1984 games out there now, but I wouldn't trust the auction or the seller for that medal.

nwcs

It's pretty sad for someone to sell their gold medal on ebay! BTW, know any ones out there that are cheap?

wingedliberty

I remember reading the article, The IOC is bunch of cheapskates!
Next they'll be issuing a clad medal!