Lordy. I thought I had seen it all with the 'Amish Fireplace' (it's free! limit two per household!). If you watch the 40 minute version, as I did one sleepless early morning, there's a shot in the middle with an "authentic amish worker" that has an electric nail gun in his hand. Working on a fireplace mantle. Pretty funny. He's easy to spot. He's the young guy with what looks like a stick on beard.
I just saw a short commercial on IFC for the $50 buffalo nickel-style gold piece. Proper disclaimer about not being legal tender, it starts by saying that production was going to have to be stopped due to a lack of available coin blanks. Near the end comes the meat of the pitch. "Clad in the purest gold - 0.9999 pecent 24K gold". Wow, that's impressive. Next is a quick remark about 14 mg of gold used on the gold 'clad' coin. Hmm.
1 oz of gold = 28 grams. 14 mg is .014g of gold. That makes 14mg = 0.000493 oz of gold. The current gold price is $1,433/oz, so this 'limited edition collector's piece' actually has about 70 cents worth of gold in - or more accurately - on it. There could be some intrinsic value in the craftsmanship or the limited 'collectibility', but I'm pretty sure that won't equal the rest of the $49.30 in value.
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