Hey guys. Today i met up with my best friend and he gave me a supposedly "international universal trade unit" one troy ounce silver coin. Its still very lustrous and detailed and it looks awesome. It has a scale on the obverse and the two world hemispheres on the REverse. I held it on the tip of my finger and tapped it with another coins (known as the tone test) and it does not sound like silber at all. Silver coins, especially large ones like this one and morgan dollars, have a very prominent, long ring but this coin had a short clink that had no ring at all. I did the magnet test and the coin was okkay in that sense because it did not stick. Is the fact that it failed the tone test mean one hundred percent that it is NOT silver or should i continue and buy a silver testing kit.
If it doesn't ring then I'd say it is not silver. I have never known the "ring" test to fail. Post some pictures of this item, maybe we can identify it.
It is possible for an internally cracked planchet to fail the "tone test" but this would be very unusual. There IS a chinese counterfeit of the "international universal trade unit" silver round, but the weight is off on it. So pictures and get a weight on the piece.
Like how long should the ring last. I just tapped it using a clad half and it last for about one full second
My 2 cents Toning not always A bulletproof test. but with today's Technology & TPG machines there a few ways a coin/bullion piece will tell. If you plan to have it graded. few can really tell from photo but in gloved hands some are 95% right.:kewl:
Gosh silver****** sorry i keep saying silber but when you type fast on a touch screen keyboard you cant escape typos
No, I would not. The easiest way is to take the coin to a jewelry shop and have it weighed. If the weight is correct, and rings like you said in post #4 - then it is probably real. Personally, I never tap a coin to use the ring test. I just flip it into the air off my fingernail. It'll ring if it is silver or gold just by doing that.
Really? Okay then ill definitly take it to a coin shop or jewlery store to have it weighed and stuff. Im confident that it is silver because my friend said the original owner,his neighbor, were bullion collectors and that they had thousands of ounces so i doubt a big time investor like that would not know the difference between real and fake silver
Not gonna say it would be impossible - there's always cracked planchets as was mentioned - but it's pretty dang unusual !
