What Is This? Chinese Medal That Claims 99.9% Gold (Id: Kaohsiung Medical University Plated Medal)

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Corbe Valued Member United States 292 Posts	Posted 11/03/2021 02:09 am Friend's dad died. This was on his dresser. We used "Google Translate" and the Chinese text suggests 99.9% gold. One side of the coin looks like bronze corroded/etched away over copper. What ever it is, it isn't 99.9%, it's clearly two things. Doesn't look like any gold coin that I have. Also this would be like 1.5-2.0 oz of gold from the size (a guess, sorry I didn't have any scale or rulers at my friend's house). The foldable faux wood is plastic. Report this Post to the Staff

cdngmt Valued Member Canada 402 Posts	Posted 11/03/2021 02:39 am most probably gold (99.9%) plated....sorry nothing worthwhile recoverable Report this Post to the Staff
Corbe Valued Member United States 292 Posts	Posted 11/03/2021 11:10 am Yup that's what I told them ... my initial opinion was don't get excited about whatever this is. Odd that "gold plating" would be corroding away on the one side though. The translation says "The contents of this product are all pure gold" and then something like "[Some institution] says the contents/ingredients aren't acceptable." I think it's some kind of medical commemorative. Not only is it sizable, it's fairly thick too, which isn't shown here. Report this Post to the Staff
David Graham Pillar of the Community Australia 1610 Posts	Posted 11/04/2021 06:47 am Corbe, not surprising it is corroding on one side. Cheap plating will spread a really thin layer that the slightest of scratches will breach exposing the metal underneath that then corrodes causing further flaking/loss of the gold layer. It may be that the gold was thinner on one side or one side got a few more nicks. Report this Post to the Staff
Corbe Valued Member United States 292 Posts	Posted 11/04/2021 07:20 am Oh got it, it corrodes under the plating, shedding the surface. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16810 Posts	Posted 11/04/2021 7:05 pm Don't have much to add, except to note that Kaohsiung is in Taiwan, and that the hospital in question is still there and still goes by that rather long and unwieldy name. Here's their website. You might have noticed - and Google Translate might not have picked it up - that the exact same characters "chun jin" (pure gold) are present twice; once to the left of the "999.9", and again on the left hand side of the second line, but the second time it is in quotation marks. And in English, whenever you see "pure gold" in quotation marks when describing a gold artifact of some kind, you do have to wonder why they felt the need to put the quotation marks there. In this case, it almost certainly means "pure gold plating". As for why it's gone corroded like that, and why only on one side, I cannot explain. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
Corbe Valued Member United States 292 Posts	Posted 11/04/2021 11:20 pm An old marketing favorite ... "made with pure beef!" Meaning 4% pure beef was added to the soy patty, only because legally required in order to call it a hamburger ... Report this Post to the Staff
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