Abstract When gold became considered as a precious metal for decorative purposes and later for coinage, attempts at producing imitations soon began to appear. There were two motives behind this activity: to make a metal that could pass as gold, and to quite openly imitate this precious metal for people who could not afford true gold. Imitation gold was produced by metallurgists, and later also by alchemists. This paper is about gold imitations that did not contain any precious metal. Gold-like alloys of silver are thus excluded. An attempt is further undertaken to classify into separate groups the various gold imitations that have appeared in different cultures throughout time, with an emphasis on brass as a typical imitation of gold.

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并非所有闪闪发光的都是黄金：历史上的黄金仿制品

摘要 当黄金被认为是一种用于装饰目的的贵金属，后来又被用于铸币时，很快就开始出现仿制品的尝试。这项活动背后有两个动机：制造一种可以作为黄金流通的金属，以及为买不起真金的人公开模仿这种贵金属。仿金是由冶金学家生产的，后来也由炼金术士生产。这篇论文是关于不含任何贵金属的黄金仿制品。因此排除了银的类金合金。进一步尝试将随时间推移出现在不同文化中的各种黄金仿制品分为不同的组，重点是黄铜作为典型的黄金仿制品。