Real Gold Plated Challenge Coins VS Imitation Gold Plated Challenge Coins
All the metal crafts need electroplating. Like lapel pins, challenge coins, metals and so on, the mainly used plating are gold, silver, antique silver, antique gold. Gold plating is a popular plating options for metal products. Also gold plating is divided into two types, one is the real gold plated and the other is the imitation gold plated. The color of the imitation gold is a kind of blue-yellow while the real gold is orange-yellow.But if you are not the professional or in this business, it can not clearly separate them out. But the real gold price is getting higher and higher every year, in order to solve the problem, imitation gold plating as a new alternative occurs. Below is the difference between gold plating and imitation gold plating?
Generally , the base content of the imitation gold plating is the brass plating liquid and imitated 18k gold is the most common color of the imitation gold. The imitation gold plating weakness is that they would change the color when get oxidized during three moths or like one year. Imitation gold plating color is not stabilizing. Plating color would not stay in same gold color, color will change after few hundred pieces plated. The plating color is a little bit plastic looking.This is because the imitation gold will be added a transparent protection layer in the surface to prevent from oxidation discoloration, once there is a broken hole, the air will be invaded, the oxidation will come in to make the color changed into blackness. And being afraid of discoloration, the cheap imitation gold products will be added a thick layer of gold lacquer which would make them look even more fake. But real gold plating will not happen of such issues. The challenge coins can keep as longer as you like.
That is why different factory supply different prices for same challenge coin. All of our challenge coins use real 24K gold plating in previous time, you see this challenge coin for our customer, it is one real 24K gold plating, so it is like orange yellow color, also you can feel its shinny, because we use better raw material so our price a bit higher than other China factory, but customers not understand why our challenge coins more better looking and keep longer time, the most important is that, we have many many reorders on kinds of challenge coins, like police challenge coin, military challenge coin, navy challenge coin and so on. As even customer keep these challenge coins more than 10 years, it is still same shinny and vivid colors. Below boeing cyber security team challenge coins in Video, we made it for customer in 2021 year, three years passed, it is still beautiful and shinny like the new one, for military challenge coins, marine challenge coin usually choose antique plating, it will not have such questions, but for police challenge coins, usually need more shinny, so usually choose shinny gold plating, the same for some team cooperate challenge coins. Like below boeing cyber security team challenge coins.
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