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Whats going on with this gold Buffalo? Natural toning?

dtkk49adtkk49a Posts: 2,490 ✭✭✭
What are your thoughts? The closeup shots show what appears to be toning? Do these gold buffs tone like this?

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  • GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 18,500 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hard to make any opinion on these horrific images.

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    Gold Milk Spots?? image

    Do these gold buffs tone like this?
    So far.....not mine!
  • dtkk49adtkk49a Posts: 2,490 ✭✭✭
    Is there such a thing as gold milk spots? First I'm hearing of this.
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  • Not attractive, imho
  • s4nys4ny Posts: 1,590 ✭✭✭
    Never saw milk spots on gold. It could be something on the inside of the plastic slab, or some interaction between gold
    and the inner wall of the slab.

    Could be the Chinese figured out a way to make a fake PCGS slab with a fake coin. If it was NGC, you could access the original picture
    on their website.
  • ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭
    Looks like somebody sneezed on it.

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  • 7over87over8 Posts: 4,733 ✭✭✭
    Sure it happens, and it happens more frequently to proof gold - even the .999 is not completely pure

    Thats why I dont like to own modern poof gold in the elusive 70 grade........in a few years when you retrieve it from the SDB, it'll look like this....
  • mbogomanmbogoman Posts: 5,316 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Looks like somebody sneezed on it. >>



    Yeah, and then flipped it over and sneezed on it again!!!
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks terrible.... never saw a gold Buff that looked that bad.....some kind of contamination....Cheers, RickO
  • Coins101Coins101 Posts: 2,603 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Sure it happens, and it happens more frequently to proof gold - even the .999 is not completely pure >>



    The Buff's are .9999. It looks like there is more spotting than .0001 worth of impurities!!! There is something really strange going on with this example!!!
  • gripgrip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Poor photographing skills may be the problem.
  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have a Mount Rushmore, ANACS Proof 69
    that looks like that !!! image
    Timbuk3
  • Coins101Coins101 Posts: 2,603 ✭✭✭
    Hum, I wonder is the Mint is selling us gold plated silver coins as pure gold? image Nah, the Federal Government wouldn't do something like that to the public!!!
  • kiyotekiyote Posts: 5,612 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This looks like a spottier version of the same problem seen on the .9999 gold spouses.
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  • s4nys4ny Posts: 1,590 ✭✭✭
    They make iPhones in China, why couldn't they make a fake slab? The gold is .9999, so what is the white stuff?
    From the slab itself?

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