Gold
- 999.999 (The purest gold ever produced. Refined by the Perth Mint in 1958.)
- 999.99 (The purest type of gold in the market)
- 999.9 Four-nine purity, e.g. Canadian Gold Maple Leaf and Panda-Pagoda investment coins
- 999 (Fineness equivalent to 24 carat, also known as three nines fine)
- 995 the minimum allowed in Good Delivery gold bars
- 990 also known as two nines fine
- 986 also known as ducat fineness, formerly used by venetian and Holy Roman Empire mints, still in use in Austria and Hungary
- 958.3 (equivalent to 23 carat)
- 916 (equivalent to 22 carat) gold is used in the Krugerrand investment coins
- 900 part gold was mostly used in Latin Monetary Union mintage (e.g. French and Swiss "Napoleon coin" 20 francs)
- 833 (equivalent to 20 carat)
- 750 (equivalent to 18 carat)
- 625 (equivalent to 15 carat)
- 585 (equivalent to 14 carat)
- 417 (equivalent to 10 carat)
- 375 (equivalent to 9 carat)
- 333 (equivalent to 8 carat; minimum standard for gold in Germany after 1884)
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Famous quotes containing the word gold:
“Holland is a dream, Monsieur, a dream of gold and smoke—smokier by day, more gilded by night. And night and day that dream is peopled with Lohengrins like these, dreamily riding their black bicycles with high handle-bars, funereal swans constantly drifting throughout the whole country, around the seas, along the canals.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“The happiest two-job marriages I saw during my research were ones in which men and women shared the housework and parenting. What couples called good communication often meant that they were good at saying thanks to one another for small aspects of taking care of the family. Making it to the school play, helping a child read, cooking dinner in good spirit, remembering the grocery list,... these were silver and gold of the marital exchange.”
—Arlie Hochschild (20th century)
“Having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world, supported by the commercial interests, the labor interests, and the toilers everywhere, we will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them: You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.”
—Administration in the State of Neva, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)