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Queensland Mint - Anybody Ever Heard Of Them?

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Look extremely dodgy to me.

Trying to sell an HPE "gold" coin as "pure gold"

HPE = "Heavy Gold Electroplate"

https://queenslandmint.com/shop/pro...n-wooden-box
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 Posted 03/21/2025  7:39 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add I6609 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Well if gold was 8000$ an ounce it would be in the ballpark.
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Contains 0.10 troy ounce or 3.11 grams of pure 99.99% gold

As I6609 pointed out, $830.34 is about 3X melt, which is quite a markup.
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 Posted 03/21/2025  8:14 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add MachinMachinMan to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
But it's not pure gold, it's PLATED
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There's an address for them in the Brisbane CBD but that must be a front.

Their URL doesn't even have .au
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They plated it with a total of 1/10 oz gold. It doesn't matter how the gold was incorporated, whether by plating it on a base metal blank or as an alloy, as long as it actually has that full 1/10 oz.
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They plated it with a total of 1/10 oz gold


Are you sure that's true?

I got one of those coins in a bulk lot I bought for $20.

It's 16mm and in a capsule so can't weigh it without cracking it out (4.4g with the capsule)

No way there's 3.1 grams of gold in it.

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Here's a different 1/10th oz HPE gold coin on ebay: Buy it Now $8

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/261921822765
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I wonder if they have it confused with this coin...
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I wonder if they have it confused with this coin...

Accidentally or on purpose?
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I don't want these shysters associated with Queensland
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