Buying gold coins - Can they be legally smelted?

numbercruncher said:

Heres one in perfect uncirculated condition minted in Melbourne 100 years ago (1909) for $550 .... they contain close to a 1/4 Oz of 22 carat.

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What do you mean they contain 1/4Oz of 22carat? 1 ounce is 31.3grms so are you saying they have 7.75grms of 22ct? or are you just saying the coin weighs 7.75 grams and its 22ct gold??

I picked up 5 22ct sovereigns today, ill post some picks if i can.

Yes I worded that poorly ..... weigh close to a 1/4 ... about 8gms ...

Assuming you have someone in mind to melt and shape the ring you could ask them how they usually do it. Hopefully you already have a professional in mind for this. Sounds very costly!

I could do it on the down low with an oxy bottle and a few moulds. Might not be quite round and could also have a few sharp edges though

A gold sovereign should contain 0.2354 troy oz of gold +/- minting and some assumed wear loss.

i once saw this river phoenix movie where he proposed to a girl with a plastic ring that you get on one of those 20c machines that you put a cion in and turn the knob.

tell her the ring is plastic because your love can not be measuerd in gold.

if you dont look like river phoenix, you migth try paying your local chinese restaurant $100 to put a ring in a fortune cookie and make sure she gets the cookie.

the night before the wedding get your lawyer to pay her a visit and sign the pre-nup. experience has shown that women are reluctant to lose face 12 hours before their weddign over a piece of paper. say you are doing it to protect the kids from evil lawyers.

to ensure a marriage lasts. go for the most extreme version of christianity available. or even consider extremist islam or hinduism, where divorce initiated my the woman is extremely unlikely, and poteantially a fatal mistake.

the gold coin story is a bit unbelievable. i would not go with that. buy shares with the money you save. good luck

sinner said:

A gold sovereign should contain 0.2354 troy oz of gold +/- minting and some assumed wear loss.

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And weigh a total of 7.9881gms - if your sovereign exceeed 8gms you can be almost certain its fake ....

Digging up a very old thread.

I proposed to my girlfriend on Friday, she said yes

Excuse the lack of focus. Macro photography is a bugger when you don't have straight lines to do autofocus, and you have astigmatism in both eyes Depth of field is about 2-3mm at this range, and I couldn't tell looking through the lens whether it was focused or not.

congrats man nice ring too, i like sapphires