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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mkbSFO, post: 777144, member: 21447&quot;]So I had NGC return a non-authentic coin. Thankfully, got my money back out of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know some people collect these for education purposes to help better detect coins like this, and some of these might even be a fully gold coin to have at least a bullion value.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a good precision scale and the coin showed 33.48 G in weight, but I understand precise measurements must also match up the dimension to the weight. I hear that specific gravity tests and also more advanced methods can look deeper into the coin, but really didn&#039;t want to spend money on that sort of thing.</p><p><br /></p><p>1. If truly 90 - 99% gold, what is this worth to other collectors?</p><p><br /></p><p>2. What methods would you employ to fully verify what exactly is in this coin?</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, I have heard about all the gold clad tungsten bars, but also that it&#039;s not quite feasible to do this to smaller coins. Curious on folks take on whether tungsten is being used in some of these fakes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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