What in the world is this????

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Thank you so much for your replies and input. Don't have anything to weigh it with, but will try to find someone who can.

 

I really appreciate your help and am going to keep researching. Thanks again.

 

These aren't counterfeits but merely "collectibles" made of base metal and plated in gold. I have four of them I got for a 25¢ each back in the mid-1960s.

 

Have a magnet? That works well with these a lot of the time.

Sometimes you can see the plating rub off, esp. with a loupe.

That's a dead give-away, too.

Look for spots.

There were some issues with bears but yeah, there are a lot of replias. I think most were made in the 70's.

Also, a jewler's scale isn't a bad investment:

 

I tried a magnet. There was no response. If it is plated over a base metal that metal does not react to a magnet. So now, I guess my question is what metals would not react to a magnet?????

 

Non-ferrous metals do not react to a magnet, which is most of them

 

Most of them.

About the only metals magnetic at room temperature are iron, nickel, and possibly cobalt.