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:
“In our daily intercourse with men, our nobler faculties are dormant and suffered to rust. None will pay us the compliment to expect nobleness from us. Though we have gold to give, they demand only copper.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The intelligent have a right over the ignorant, namely, the right of instructing them. The right punishment of one out of tune, is to make him play in tune; the fine which the good, refusing to govern, ought to pay, is, to be governed by a worse man; that his guards shall not handle gold and silver, but shall be instructed that there is gold and silver in their souls, which will make men willing to give them every thing which they need.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“John Brown of Ossawattamie
Who died to set Abstraction free
Stole Washington’s gold-handled sword
Less for the gold than for the Lord....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)