Strange but I ordered a single 2025 silver eagle from Summit Metal, a legit bullion dealer, to put me over for free shipping and as I always do with my rounds I weighed them,magnet'ed them, and pinged them with my coin pinger. I got a funny high pitched ping from them that I never heard before. With my iphone I couldn't find the exact match for the 2025 coin and it failed every other eagle setting. Odd. It had the security notch where it was supposed to be, at 1000 oclock, everything about the coin was legit. Finally I found the correct match on my iphone coin tester and the ping went 3/3 time after time. Theres no question the coin is Legit. But tapping it with the wood stick and the pinger still produces a ping like no other silver coin I own. Anyone else experience this ?
I’ve been collecting coins for over 65 years. What is a pinger? The closest noise I know to a ping is the sound of a pinball machine. Welcome to CT.
I think he's referring to this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/4058096430...0oSxGxVI/FVS+eUMYmO8Ev3Mxg==|tkp:BFBMmseO6t1l
I have one like it. Works well for larger coins, not so well for smaller ones. IIRC the app only claimed to judge coins down to half-dollars. The holder has two silicone nubs, which won't mar coins as long as you keep them clean and free of debris. I forget if my striker is wood or plastic, but this arrangement is less likely to damage a coin than flipping it or dropping it on a table. At least, that's the idea.
This "ping test" stuff is possibly the most ridiculous thing to enter the numismatic world in my lifetime ("no mint mark" is up there too). I won't bother with a lengthy diatribe. It's stupid, and that's enough said.
After looking and reading the description all I can say it you’ve got to be kidding me. For the price of it I can buy a decent silver coin.
Ping testing in my opinion isn't the best way of detecting counterfeits. You should post some pictures of it. If it isn't real, you can be 99% sure someone on this forum can tell it's a fake.
Silver certainly does have a definite tone when rung however just because a coin is silver does not mean it's not counterfeit.
Boy your a real sharp dog aren't you ? I bet you can even count, at least to 20. The feck you care what I spend my money on anyway girlfriend? Thanks for hijacking my thread. So what is the best way ? Buying a $1,500 machine ? Hell I could buy 42 silver coins for that. But instead I'll use $40 of a ping tester, cheap digital scale, and cheap magnet, and the ping software is free. THEN I'll buy 41 silver coins with whats left over "depending on type".
