Morgan Dollar - Fake?

yes you are correct. it interacts differently with the magnetic field. Oh that seems really awesome, it was moving with the magnetic field i suppose. Wish i had an MRI in my house to try it lol

 

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Oh thats very interesting, I'm taking currently an entry university physics course. I was never taught electromagnetism in high school. When i did a google search; i found out that copper is slightly magnetic and i assumed that the copper was interacting with the magnet. Seems i was wrong. Both silver and copper are conductors and i get the same result when i used a copper penny. Thank you for your knowledge!

 

thats exactly what i was thinking, its not worth being faked. I just know so many fakes exist, even in pcgs/ NGC holders that are very well made. can't be too careful. BTW could you give me more info on what VAM-1F means exactly. I was trying to do some research on google and i couldnt get past that, its a grading scheme for morgan dollars and i found some grades but not an 1F. thank you

 

VAMs are the variety identifiers for Morgan Dollars, similar to Overtons for Bust Halves and Shendons for early copper, etc. The names of the two gentlemen who began the effort back in the Sixties (and earlier individually), Leroy Van Allen and A. George Mallis, form the acronym "VAM." Here's yours:

http://www.vamworld.com/1921-D+VAM-1F

The die cracks are too fine to duplicate by any copying method. This is a really interesting variety to someone like me who is interested in 1921 Morgans, but not at all uncommon. That is part of the interest to me. The Mint was pushed so hard to create these in their millions that they pushed dies long past the end of their realistic life. It led to some spectacularly cracked dies, like these.

 

You can always check for real silver by putting an ice cube on top of it. Silver gives off heat and the ice cube should dissolve rather quickly than it would on a fake coin.

 

So if I made my house out of silver I would never have to heat it? Silver does not give off heat. Silver is a good conductor of heat.

 

Actually silver oxide is a pretty good conductor.

 

I suspect if your house were silver, it would be magnetic......

 

Thanks so much for sharing, learnt alot!

 

Shoot......ain't heard that term since high school. I think it was my old friend Jules (joules).

 

I bought some of those magnetic silver Morgan dollars.

 

Silver sulfide, not so much.

 

I always loved watching those few people during various AP courses, college lectures, etc manipulating their left hands wildly in the air during tests/midterms/finals and myself wanting to do a face-palm. My right hand was busy figuring out field and current direction.