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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JayAg47, post: 4876876, member: 112342&quot;]So I bought this Attica Aegina turtle stater last year when I first got into ancients, I saw this coin on eBay going for around 60 bucks from an Eastern European seller, what a deal right /s. Well upon receiving it I just didn&#039;t feel right owning this coin, the first thing that struck me even before paying for the coin is the incuse! it has six sections whereas almost all of the coins I saw online have 5, sometimes 4, but never 6, but I purchased it anyway. The next thing is the pits and bubbles of a cast fake. Finally, I made my mind to return the coin for a refund and I got refunded as well (thank goodness), but however, the seller didn&#039;t ask the coin back, just cementing the fact that it&#039;s fake. So I got stuck with the coin since then, but I couldn&#039;t bring myself to throw it in the trash either.</p><p>Now the confusion is, could it be a fake made of actual silver (low grade)? I toned the coin with a boiled egg to see if it has any silver, and sure enough, it toned, the first pic shows the untoned, the second pic shows the yellowish-blue toning (particularly at the top right to the turtle)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1177927[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1177928[/ATTACH]</p><p>And I also did the specific gravity test on this coin and got a value of 10.02 (12.93g dry weight / 1.29g displaced weight), the actual displaced weight was 1.31g but I subtracted 0.02g for the suspension wire). 10.02 corresponds to around 70-75% silver!</p><p>What are your thoughts?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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