[mmichaels1970]

You would merely go into the local gold smelting joint, put down all these coins and say: "MELT THESE, PLEASE." Lol.

lol...I agree with you. Melting would be a terrible idea.

I DID see some dude making gold bars in the recent miniseries "Klondike" though and it didn't look too hard. :)

[cloudmountain]

lol...I agree with you. Melting would be a terrible idea.
I DID see some dude making gold bars in the recent miniseries "Klondike" though and it didn't look too hard. :)

When we lived in Saudi Arabia (early 1980's), we would go into town and visit the gold souk (market) on occasion.
They had REAL GOLD BARS for sale.
There was a smallish one and I asked the price. It was called the "Hershey bar" because it was IDENTICAL to the size of a standard Hershey bar. It was $44,000.00. I don't even remember the price is Saudi riyals!!