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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cubenewb, post: 1224330, member: 25644&quot;]Same thoughts. I took a Counterfeit Detection course through the ANA Summer Seminar this past month and you would be surprised by the detail in counterfeits. The easiest test is of course the weight test, often-times cast copies are more than 10% underweight, if it&#039;s beyond a 5% tolerance of the Red book weight it&#039;s probably a cast copy. It may be tedious but another option is a reed count... those are often messed up on copies because the reverse and obverse are often-times taken from a real coin, but the reeding on the coin&#039;s edge is often custom done, and potentially done improperly. Close ups would also help... if there are the tell-tale &#039;pock marks&#039; on this coin there can be very little dispute that it isn&#039;t authentic. Often time the chinese fakes are purposely toned/ &#039;dirtied&#039; to look heavily circulated.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Not trying to rain on your parade man, I bought a &#039;93 CC a couple years back that was a very convincing fake. The good news is that even if they are counterfeit, they are probably still the same silver composition and thus, you got them for a good price. A magnetic susceptibility test is also a great test.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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