Your definition of being able to "fork" elements on the periodic table is accepted by nobody else on earth besides yourself.  You're just making things up as you go.  All you're doing is describing a king trying to force people off a metals content based currency and onto a fiat currency.  Your argument has no point because nothing actually happened to change the metal.  It's still sitting there the same as before, just someone attempted to steal it through debasement.  Debasing is the same thing as shaving - physically removing a quantity.  Nothing about the metal actually "forked".