We try to determine to what extent an "axial prolate rotor + 1 or 2 quasipa
rticle model" succeeds in describing the transitional odd and odd-odd Ir an
d Au nuclei. The relative location of the excited states, as welt as the pr
operties of the ground and isomeric states, particularly the magnetic and s
pectroscopic quadrupole moments, is compared to the predictions of the mode
l. (C) 2001 MAIK "Nauka/Interperiodica'.