Just six grams of gold coat an Olympic “gold” medal, which is otherwise mostly silver — the last solid-gold medals were handed out at the 1912 Stockholm Games

At the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, winners of individual events received medals that were exactly what their name promised. Each was struck in solid gold. They were the last of their kind. So what is an Olympic gold medal actually made of, and why did the real thing disappear after a single Games in [...] The post Just six grams of gold coat an Olympic “gold” medal, which is otherwise mostly silver — the last solid-gold medals were handed out at the 1912 Stockholm Games appeared first on