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Degraded quality of Olympic bronze medal after a week (Nyjah Huston’s (USA Skateboarder)) (files.catbox.moe)

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[–] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I have a bronze coin I made about 6 years ago. It's been handled by more people than I can count, but it sits for months in a box in my garage.

It still looks very much like bronze, just slightly darker in the crevices.

This just looks like piss poor electroplating.

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Yeah, if anything when you look at bronze statutes that have been in the elements for decades, the parts that people touch are the shiny, nice-looking parts.