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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hookman, post: 3540815, member: 99642&quot;]If you don&#039;t mind my asking, who are some of those people?</p><p><br /></p><p>Though I&#039;m not into Ancients yet, I&#039;ve definitely been into Far East coins, including French Indo China Piasters, for some time.&nbsp; So far, I&#039;ve relied on my knowledge, which is not that great, and my innate ability to spot the fakes and just not take a chance on buying them. So far, I&#039;ve been either good at it, or lucky, or both, and haven&#039;t bought, and kept, any fakes.</p><p>Whenever I receive a coin that could be suspect, I take it to my local Houston Jewelry Exchange and ask them to test it with their XRF gun.&nbsp; </p><p>I bought a Piaster that when tested, turned out to only be 25% silver. I immediately returned it to the seller for a full refund.</p><p>The only other fake I bought, I bought on purpose. It is a Chinese &quot;Fatman&quot; coin. The eBay seller, smallsword, pictured it on a scale as weighing far under the correct weight, which of course screamed fake, but after conversing with the seller and being assured that his gun tested it as silver, I bought it anyway, for a very good price, and when I got it, I tested it, also with the aforementioned gun, and it was indeed 90% silver.</p><p>So, by being careful, and lucky, I&#039;ve had success buying Oriental coins on eBay.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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