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refining gold playing cards? (Patreon)

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2018-07-18 14:56:17
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2021-10

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Anonymous

Nothing worse than a cheat, sickening

Anonymous

If there is a certificate of authenticity with a code on it, it should be possible to look that code up somehow to see if it's authentic, no? We know now it's not gold, but if you don't have an X-ray spectrometer at hand, how else would you be able tell? Is a certificate of authenticity really worth absolutely nothing?

CodysLab
>>13929520

The acid test I did pretty much proved it wasn’t gold. The x Ray is just gravy on top.

Anonymous

it could still be interesting to learn how the shiny golden coating is made

Silviu T

My best bet is that it's a plastic with flakes of either brass or aluminum bronze uniformly dispersed in its mass. Or colorized aluminum foil. I used to have in a chemistry book somewhere a recipe for turning aluminum foil all sorts of colors, including golden.

Anonymous

If you're willing I think it would be interesting to do some tests to find out what the gold-colored coating is. Anodized aluminum?

CodysLab
>>13929912

What ever it is it isn’t a heavy metal. Gold anodized aluminum would fit.

Anonymous

Well being ripped off or saying something is gold when it not is horrible.

Brian Reddeman

Sold by "American Coin Treasures"

Anonymous

Why is there an H on the top of a vial with Iodine in it? :P

Anonymous

Maybe you should post this on Codysblab?

Anonymous

I have the same deck of cards. To me it seems that only the face cards have some gold on it. Try to put some acid on the right or left of the king drawing. I know xray doesn't lie, but maybe it's so thin that somehow it didn't pick it up.

Anonymous

Poor guy probably got them off of Wish or Ebay. Heck, any online retailer for that matter. Hopefully they weren't too expensive.

Michael Aichlmayr

I think you should publish it. This is debunking at its finest!

Anonymous

This is totally worthy of publishing. I was literally on the edge of my seat.

Mark Trombley

Did you xray the certificate? Maybe that is the only card with gold on it.

Anonymous

100% publish it. I too would like to know what it actually is. Test for aluminum?

Nani Isobel

Cool. Very CSI-ish. But real.

Sprutkit
>>13933945

I had two of these decks. Bought them as gag gifts for my friends I play poker with. They were like $8 for 2 packs. Not much more than a standard deck of cards.

Max Eliaser

I think you should publish it as it would be valuable consumer journalism.

VeeDragon

Very interesting debunking! Publish it!

Anonymous

I agree, publish it. Figuring out what the gold coloring actually is would be great as well.

Anonymous

I really enjoyed this video, It was a nice twist at the end. It would be a waste not to publish it.

Anonymous

<a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Plated-Playing-Cards-Deluxe-Wooden/dp/B00HTXZ12S" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.co.uk/Plated-Playing-Cards-Deluxe-Wooden/dp/B00HTXZ12S</a> I assume they are these? I don't know about the US but I'm fairly sure that you'd have a case in the UK for false advertising and forcing them to either actually coat their cards in gold or to stop labelling them as being gold plated if this is representative.

Anonymous

Publish it! :)

Anonymous

Definitely publish! That was a great video!

Anonymous

I found them for sale on overstock.com in the USA and many sources in China via alibaba/aliexpress.

Brian Reddeman

I don't think this is particularly earth shaking stuff--the prices for the deck range from not far above regular cards to the price of high quality cards. I don't think many people really buy these things after looking at them for the real gold value. Now if this was gold coins valued at $500 USD or more then yeah someone should notify some authorites.

Anonymous

If you publish it, I think you should add a clip about what the certificate actually means and how to check it's authenticity. Probably even check the non authenticity of said certificate. I understand it would be hard to make into a very entertaining clip, but I think it would be very informative for people who might be tricked by some writing and a random number. Or to people who would make sure that what they buy is legit.

Anonymous

Interesting... At first I even assumed a plastic coating, gold leaf on playing cards doesn't sound very durable if it's the uppermost layer. Good job trying lacquer thinner, but I'm far from certain that that would remove all plastics; I would have torn the card in half to be sure I got to any metal present. Back to the plastic coating, notice how the acid droplet coalesced and moved as a single bead, without leaving much of any trail behind. Add in the relatively steep contact angle, and that's a hydrophobic surface to me - before and after the lacquer thinner. Still, ultimately, the X-ray can't lie, like you said.

Silviu T
>>13970020

Likely the top layer is polyethylene or polypropylene, which would not dissolve in any solvents (while also being very cheap)

Anonymous
>>13970020

<a href="https://www.spilltech.com/wcsstore/SpillTechUSCatalogAssetStore/Attachment/documents/ccg/POLYETHYLENE.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.spilltech.com/wcsstore/SpillTechUSCatalogAssetStore/Attachment/documents/ccg/POLYETHYLENE.pdf</a> Aqua regia attacks polyethylene. As does ether, phenol, turpentine, xylene. PP <a href="https://www.calpaclab.com/polypropylene-chemical-compatibility-chart/:" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.calpaclab.com/polypropylene-chemical-compatibility-chart/:</a> ether, 'Lacquer Thinners', methyl methacrylate, turpentine.

Anonymous
>>13970020

Come to think of it, I store toluene in a paint tin because it melted the cap of regular HDPE bottles. And methyl ethyl ketone peroxide (vinylester resin catalyser) strips plastics pretty dang well.