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Couple NEWPs and a specific gravity visualization.

gecko109gecko109 Posts: 8,231 ✭
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Finally received my order from Gainsville. I really like the fractional size of these coins. I may purchase another 60 just so I have an even 100....especially on this wonderful dip in prices!


The cylinder is also a newp. It is 1 kilogram of 99.5% pure tungsten. With a specific gravity of almost the same as gold, this little cylinder is SHOCKINGLY heavy for its size! I included a photo of a 1 kilo silver bar so you can see just how dramatic the difference really is.


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  • DrBusterDrBuster Posts: 5,378 ✭✭✭✭✭
    nevermind
  • FistFullOfDollarsFistFullOfDollars Posts: 359 ✭✭✭
    I find the specific gravity visualization to be confusing


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  • mhammermanmhammerman Posts: 3,769 ✭✭✭
    "I find the specific gravity visualization to be confusing"



    Yeah, Gecko, we're coin nerds, not rocket scientists...duh.
  • 57loaded57loaded Posts: 4,967 ✭✭✭
    i do like the gold "dos pesos", what is the fineness and "fraction"

    ( i am too busy to look at Gainsville, atm)
  • gecko109gecko109 Posts: 8,231 ✭


    << <i>I find the specific gravity visualization to be confusing >>




    How so? Is it because one object is a cylinder and the other is a bar?
  • gecko109gecko109 Posts: 8,231 ✭


    << <i>i do like the gold "dos pesos", what is the fineness and "fraction"

    ( i am too busy to look at Gainsville, atm) >>





    .900 fine with an AGW of .0482 troy oz.
  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    No, because you don't have a picture of the kilo bar next to the kilo cylinder. That would help people visualize it a bit better, I'd imagine.

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  • gsa1fangsa1fan Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭
    His hand is same size in both pictures. That's the visual I relateimage
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  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    Well, I noticed that too, but the hand is not the same distance from the lens in each respective picture, so that might be slightly confusing to some of the visually challenged. image

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  • ranshdowranshdow Posts: 1,441 ✭✭✭✭
    i do like the gold "dos pesos", what is the fineness and "fraction"

    You didn't ask, but...

    one Dos Pesos is 1.5g pure gold, total wt 1.66g.

    42 "pesos" is thus 31.5g or just a hair over one troy oz. pure gold. This holds constant for the other Mexican peso denominations.
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,113 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The dos pesos appear to weigh about as much as a U. S. gold dollar.

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  • gecko109gecko109 Posts: 8,231 ✭


    << <i>The dos pesos appear to weigh about as much as a U. S. gold dollar. >>




    With the same diameter as well.....at about 1/3rd the cost! image
  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,761 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sure takes a lot of gold dos pesos to hold that dollar down!

    Seriously, are these restrikes or originals (and how can you tell?).

    bob
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  • CiccioCiccio Posts: 1,405 ✭


    << <i>Sure takes a lot of gold dos pesos to hold that dollar down!

    Seriously, are these restrikes or originals (and how can you tell?).

    bob >>



    For what I know, you can't tell since they are made with the same die.
    Though, the 2-peso restrikes are dated 1945.
    I think that most of the ones we see around are restrikes.
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