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Bedrock of the Community
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That would be great. I need one for my educational files. (I'm now up to 3975 right now on my image host)
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Valued Member
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Here is a pic hope it helps and comes through  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Looks great. I can work with that.  Edited by coop
04/30/2015 7:46 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Outstanding thread JWmurders and outstanding work on the educational piece coop.
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Pillar of the Community
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You'd probably be amazed Jwmurders, at the area an ounce of gold can be made to cover. It is extremely pliable. Plating is extremely thin, very little there. On the other hand, gold filled weighs at least 20% of the item. All gold and silver is "pure", it's just sometimes alloyed with other metals (often to increase it's durability). Pre 1965 dimes, quarters, halves, and dollar coins, are 90% pure silver. Sterling is 92.5% pure silver. Pure gold is 24 karat so a 14 karat gold ring is a little over 50% pure gold. I hope that clears your understanding, it did mine when I learned it.
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Valued Member
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Yeah I do alot of precious metal trading, I just didnt know anything aout this coins appearance.
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Pillar of the Community
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Pardon me Jwmurders, I miss-addressed that, it was intended for someone else.
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Pillar of the Community
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Coop,
Your educational piece should say" Gold or Silver ...
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Bedrock of the Community
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I have example of both coming, so it will be on the next images.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Did some quick math and 1 oz of gold will plate a 100 square foot area with a plating 7 millionth of a inch thick. Or enough to plate about 10,000 or so quarters.
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05/02/2015 10:18 am
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Pillar of the Community
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Yes Conder101, I believe the square footage is correct. That would probably be enough gold to plate a mid-size car. The cost to have it done though, would make the price of the gold look pretty small. If my memory serves me correctly, Elvis had it done to a Caddy.
By the way, what is the percentage of a square foot per quarter?
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05/02/2015 8:56 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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Well if 10,000 quarters = 100 square feet then 100 quarters equals 1 square foot so a quarter equals about 1% of a square foot.
Now you can lay out 144 quarters in a square foot area, but the quarters have two sides. There is also some space between the quarters but that space does not equal enough area to cover the other side of the coins. So you have to sacrifice some of the 144 to gain enough area to cover the other side. The surface area of on side of a quarter is .71 square inches so two sides is 1.42 square inches. A square foot is 144 square inches so the two faces equals .995% of a square foot.
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Pillar of the Community
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Sounds logical to me, but you forgot to calculate the edges. That is a sizable mistake when you're considering 10,000 quarters.
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Bedrock of the Community
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OK. I just the Quarters from Steve Young and here are the image collages:   |
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