Today I found an advertisement from a Chinese website that claimed they can produce a tungsten gold coin; found it via kitco.com forum. After I knew about tungsten can be a good substitution alloy for gold, whenever I found any news about it, I will read and try to understand. I been told that there is no evidence of a tungsten coin been proven yet. The only proven thing about tungsten replacing gold so far is in one old video from Germany. This advertisement maybe will alert us that one day, tungsten gold coin in your bullion coin maybe will exist. If they can find a good cheap way to produce them.
Here is what the company claimed can do with Tungsten:
Why tungsten alloy is used as gold substitution?
In theory, as its density is 19.1g/cm3, which is approximately 70% denser than lead, uranium could be used as material of making fake coin. However, it is weakly radioactive and not as dense as gold, so it does not appear to be a practical method.
Then people have discovered that tungsten is environmental-friendly, durable and hardness, the most important is that its density of 19.25g/cm3 is just about the same density as gold (19.3g/cm3), which bears the similar specific gravity. These advantages make tungsten enjoys the superiority to be the best substitute for the costly metal of gold or platinum. It is necessary to tell that alloying gold with tungsten would not work for several reasons but a coin with a tungsten center and gold all around it could not be detected as counterfeit by density measurement alone.
The appliances for tungsten alloy as gold substitution:
Nowadays, tungsten alloy is increasingly used in some field relevant to gold or platinum substitution, such as: jewelry, e.g. ring, ear ring, necklace, wrist chain, etc. Also, it is widely adopted in making souvenir coins, such as memorial crown and other application such as watch band.
Since tungsten alloy bears a special property of longevity and high durability, when it is utilized to make jewelry, it always implicate the love between lovers or couple could be everlasting. Its hardness makes it ideal for rings that will resist scratching, are hypoallergenic, and will not need polishing, which is especially useful in designs with a brushed finish.
Chinatungsten offer tungsten alloy as gold substitution:
We are well accustomed to exploit more innovative applications of tungsten products. Gold-plated tungsten is one of our main products.
In details, pure tungsten, in the forms of round disc, plate, sheet, ring, and etc., can be perfectly coated with gold layer with clinquant shine, to replace gold or platinum merchandise except its currency function.
If you are interest in this information, please feel free to contact us. Any questions or enquiries about tungsten alloy products will be welcomed by email.
Tungsten Alloy Coin Tungsten Ring
Notice: Chinatungsten Online (Xiamen) Manu.&Sales Corp. is a very professional and serious company, specializing in manufacturing and selling tungsten related products for more than two decades. Our gold-plated tungsten alloy products are only for souvenir and decoration purpose. Here we declare: Please do not use our gold-plated tungsten alloy products for illegal purpose.
website: tungsten-alloy.com
The issue here is that this company advertising their product with a picture of Australian Gold coin without Queen Elizabeth II head. That is just maybe a marketing strategy but that really make people wondering if they can really produce fake gold coin filled with Tungsten. What I understand it is very hard to put an image on tungsten since there is no machine that can accurately produce same image as on the coin yet. Most probably the fake coins will not have the same image as the original one. Their weight also will not have the same exact weight as original. The fake tungsten gold bullion coin is still hard to produce but there is a possibility it will be exist one day.
Currently, this company is just selling gold plated tungsten paper weight but who know they just saying that to cover their customer. If you were selling fake items to anyone, do you want to tell everybody that you supply that kind of thing to the rest of the world? Fake and imitation item is a big business in China. I am not saying this company produce fake item, just sharing that the probability of fake tungsten coin is still possible. Just make sure you buy from a reputable dealer not some cheap gold bullion seller from the Internet.
Source: Kitco.com forum.
Currently, this company is just selling gold plated tungsten paper weight but who know they just saying that to cover their customer. If you were selling fake items to anyone, do you want to tell everybody that you supply that kind of thing to the rest of the world? Fake and imitation item is a big business in China. I am not saying this company produce fake item, just sharing that the probability of fake tungsten coin is still possible. Just make sure you buy from a reputable dealer not some cheap gold bullion seller from the Internet.
Source: Kitco.com forum.
