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Old 12th December 2022, 06:39 PM   #23
Battara
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Originally Posted by kronckew View Post
The auction listing just describes the inscriptions as 'a yellow metal', not gold.
I've noticed that in order not to get into trouble, dealers and auction houses won't list "silver" or "gold" because they don't bother to test the material or have the testing kits. "German silver" and bronze when polished look like silver or gold, so they list the metal details ambiguously.
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