Royal Canadian Mint-stamped gold wafer appears to be fake
By GCRU Gold News on Monday, October 30 2017, 23:53 - Permalink
The Royal Canadian Mint is investigating how a sealed, "pure gold" wafer with proper mint stampings may in fact be a fake.
The one-ounce gold piece, which was supposed to be 99.99 per cent pure, was purchased by an Ottawa jeweller on Oct. 18 at a Royal Bank of Canada branch. Yet tests of the bar show it may contain no gold at all.
When neither the mint nor RBC would take the bar back, jeweller Samuel Tang contacted CBC news.
"Who is going to make sure those gold wafers are real?" asked Tang. "I am worried there are more of those gold wafers out there, and no one knows."
"A currency counterfeiter doesn't make just one fake $50 bill," he said. "They make a whole lot of them. So I would suspect this might just be the tip of the iceberg."
Royal Canadian Mint-stamped gold wafer appears to be fake
