-> There's also the thing which overhere is called "American
Gold", far from pu 
-> gold with a lot of other metals blended into it mainly to drop the price but 
-> still call it "gold". 
  
There's also "fool's gold", a mineral that looks startlingly like gold, 
but is actually iron sulphide. Many a prospector has thought he's 
struck it rich, only to find his "gold" is virtually worthless. 
  
The Canadian dollar coin looks like gold when it is new, but becomes 
brassy-looking when it has had some use. A kid I knew a few years ago 
received such a coin as a tip, when he was working as a waiter in a 
restaurant. But the coin looked a bit strange to him. I was in the 
restaurant, and he brought it to me to ask what I thought of it. The 
first thing I noticed was that it was unexpectedly heavy. It was the 
same colour as a new dollar coin, and had "$100" marked on it, which 
the kid understood to mean one dollar and zero cents. It also had 
markings that commemorated the olympic games in Montreal in 1976. It 
was, in fact, a solid gold coin with a face value of a hundred dollars 
which had been issued at the time of the games. Someone, sometime, must 
have mistaken it for a one-dollar coin, and had spent it as such, since 
when it had been circulating as a one-dollar coin. The kid sold it to a 
coin dealer for about $250. It was the best tip he ever got. 
  
                        dow 
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