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:
“But not gold in commercial quantities,
Just enough gold to make the engagement rings
And marriage rings of those who owned the farm.
What gold more innocent could one have asked for?”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)
“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)