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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 1249159, member: 27832&quot;]How confident are you in your ability to distinguish fakes?</p><p><br /></p><p>If it&#039;s a counterfeit, but still minted in coin gold, sure, it&#039;s worth melt. If it weighs the right amount and has the right dimensions, there isn&#039;t much else it could be -- tungsten is about the only thing that&#039;s as dense as gold and significantly cheaper, and it&#039;s pretty hard to work, so I don&#039;t think gold-plated tungsten coins are common yet.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would buy this for $1400 or even $1500 on eBay, because I&#039;d know I could take my time authenticating it and then use Buyer Protection if it&#039;s fake. I wouldn&#039;t touch it in a non-reversible transaction.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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