[djf]

Ping!

[Red Badger]

OOPS!........Better check Ft. Knox........................

[Emperor Palpatine]

The culprit?

[Red Badger]

He would not comment, though, on who sold him the bogus bars.

Hmmmm?....................

[arrogantsob]

LoL, its only $160 Gs or so. Chump change.

[Kartographer]

A fool and his gold are soon parted....

[PGR88]

I will bet you $1000 (US, non gold backed dollars that is) that the source was CHINA.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

They came from Fort Knox.

</sarcasm>

[arrogantsob]

Does 100 oz of tungsten weigh exactly what 100 oz of gold does?

[Gay State Conservative]

Not being a physicist or a metallurgist I don't know the answer but it might still be a stupid question:could one of these phony bars have been detected through the use of X-Ray or some other kind of scan?

[hinckley buzzard]

Fresh out of sympathy for anyone buying ten ounce gold bars off the streets of Newyork.

[Mad Dawgg]

You just knew this was gonna happen.

Next we will find Silver bars faked as well.

[DBrow]

The W bars should sound different from gold when tapped by a hammer because it is stiffer. It rings. Just in case any of us were tempted to go out and buy a bar.

W density is 0.4% less dense than gold.

I have a large statue of a bird of prey cast in gold, covered with black paint to disguise it. It’s the stuff dreams are made of.

[DBrow]

From Wikipedia:

“Gold-plated tungsten is available commercially from China (the main source of tungsten), both in jewelry and as bars.[58]”

What a surprise.

[dynachrome]

Check out this chinese company, via Zerohedge:

“Get Your Fake Tungsten-Filled Gold Coins Here”

From the website’s Tungsten Heavy Alloy Scan Gold Coin section:

Tungsten is the only lower value metal that has a specific density close enough to gold to fabricate passable counterfeit pieces of the same size and weight as genuine Pictures of tungsten fake gold coins and ingots. Over the years, there have been a few isolated reports of smaller tungsten fake gold coin found to have been drilled to remove some of the gold which was replaced with tungsten. However, tungsten fake gold coin is far more profitable to fabricate larger original bars of tungsten that are then scanning gold.

Because the existence of counterfeit tungsten fake gold coin could have such a huge impact on the financial markets, there is a huge potential for deception and misinformation to be passed around. Be very careful about automatically believing any story you may hear. For your own protection, tungsten fake gold coin would be better to take physical possession of the smaller sizes of tungsten fake gold coins and now, and know that what you own genuine solid tungsten fake gold coin. [ZH: reread that sentence: “genuine solid tungsten fake gold coin”]”

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-09-24/get-your-fake-tungsten-filled-gold-coins-here

[rellimpank]

-—checking the handy periodic table—W (tungsten ) atomic weight 183.84-—Au (gold)-—— 196.97

[procrustes]

And G. Gordon Liddy, that old convict, retired just last month!

[SamAdams76]

So how does one tell if his gold bars are fake or real? I got a few of these kicking around in my attic and I’m hoping they are for real. Because if we have a TEOTWAWKI event, I’m taking them down to the corner store to get a whole mess of milk and bread and I don’t want some smartass shopkeeper telling me they are fake!

[mikrofon]

"Tungsten? Well, gold is good..."

[kik5150]

Put the bar in a hydraulic press and see if it bends. If it does, it’s gold.