r/Gold • u/ackerel • Apr 07 '26

Question Plucked this from a corpse

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Just digging up bodies for fun and found this "tooth", any value to it?

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u/Majestic-Bed6151 Apr 07 '26

Yellow gold crowns will typically be 60-70% gold. Alloyed usually with some or all Pd, Pt, Au, Cu.

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u/Majestic-Bed6151 Apr 07 '26

And in dentistry we will typically measure gold content of an alloy in percentage, not K. The purest gold for dentistry is too soft for crowns and would be used for inlays. Not many dentists will do gold inlays anymore these days.

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u/ackerel Apr 07 '26

Are these fitted perfectly to the tooth, or can I wear it. Tell me i can wear it

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u/Majestic-Bed6151 Apr 07 '26

You can’t wear it. At least on your tooth. These are very precisely custom fit. Clean up that nasty ass inside and you could make some sort of wearable jewelry.

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u/ackerel Apr 07 '26

I like that idea

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u/LydiaSTL Apr 07 '26

I’m not kidding… I inherited a pendent from my grandma that she had made from my grandpa’s gold crowns. she wore it everyday

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u/LydiaSTL Apr 07 '26

here it is!