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Show Odd Facta About Gold. Few persons are familiar with the real color of gold, because It Is seldom seen except when heavily alloyed, a state In which it Is much redder than when It Is pure. The purest coins ever made were the $50 pieces which were once In common use In California. Their coinage was abandoned because the loss by abrasion wss so great and because their Interior could be bored out anil filled with lead. They were octagonal In shape and were the most valuable coins ever minted nnd circulated. All gold Is not alike when refined. Australian gold Is distinctly redder than that taken In California. Moreover, More-over, placer gold Is more yellow than that which Is taken from quartz. This Is one of the mysteries of metallurgy, metal-lurgy, because the gold In placers mines from (bat which Is Ir qnnrtz The gold In the Ural mountains Is the reddest In the world. |