I've soaked a few 205s in water and none of the gold came off, maybe they were soaked in some other substance. There was a large group of them sold as a lot in one of the major auctions awhile back, them being together leads me to believe they all faced the same type of 'corrosion.' Also, there is the theory that they could be scrap. Really hard to say. None that I've seen looked 'scraped' but that could have happened as well...
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