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 -Edited- 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".
Boy and they thought what I said was stupid ? I'm 99% sure I could post pictures of real coins and someone on this board will tell me its fake. You can't beat the ping test. If a coin is .999 silver it will ping a certain way. Every time. It doesn't matter if the coin is 75% silver or 10% silver sold by a guy named -Edited- from Peking no matter how good it looks in a picture. -Edited- could be the Rembrandt of coins who makes a 10% silver Eagle look so good in a picture you experts drool and slobber over yourselves looking at it on the board. It could, and would, pass the magnet test cause its coated in silver and -Edited- could have it weighing exactly 31.1035 grams using his cagey little Chinese methods but it wont pass the ping test because it ain't 31.1035 grams of .999 silver. And as long as its 31.1035 grams of .999 silver who cares what else -Edited- is up to ? Or you could spend 42's worth of 31.1035 grams worth of silver and buy the expensive gadget that tells you the very same thing a $30 pinger tells you. And you'll hear -Edited- laughing at you all the way from Peking via Ebay.
I'm sorry but deliberately banging a coin that has significant numismatic value is dangerous and dumb. If you want to do it to bullion, fine. On collector coins, it's not a reliable test. They make fakes from real silver, the middle eastern gold fakes often had more gold than the real coins, this ping test is not going to tell you if it's an added mint mark or sandwiched fake, etc. Knowledge about what a fake coin looks like generally, and specific knowledge about a series - like die pairs, date position, mint mark types, etc - will get you a lot better results than whacking valuable coins. If you posted images of that 2025 ASE, a lot of people on here could tell you right away if it's fake. But you seem to be on here to start arguing so best wishes and good luck.
OK, take a deep breath. Now, I'm not one to step on anyone's feet, but your references are starting to go over the line of civility and ethnicity. Be careful my friend.
