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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1439132, member: 26302"]Personally, if you know its fake I would never even try to make a couple of bucks on whether its silver or not. Silver is too easy to imitate SG, and surface coatings of silver can fool testing equipment. Not worth the risk to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>OP, this is a bad fake. There are way better ones out there. If this coin wasn't SCREAMING fake to you within half a second, then you should definitely spend time learning how to identify fakes before spending any money on such coins. If this coin is for sale at a dealer, (and not clearly marked FAKE), you just found out what dealer to NEVER trust, ever. heck, even if the dealer was selling this as a fake I would never buy from him, since he should never sell fakes anyway, and should put this in his black cabinet. All good dealers have collections of fakes they have taken off the market, bad dealers just sell them, perpetuating the problems.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1439132, member: 26302"]Personally, if you know its fake I would never even try to make a couple of bucks on whether its silver or not. Silver is too easy to imitate SG, and surface coatings of silver can fool testing equipment. Not worth the risk to me. OP, this is a bad fake. There are way better ones out there. If this coin wasn't SCREAMING fake to you within half a second, then you should definitely spend time learning how to identify fakes before spending any money on such coins. If this coin is for sale at a dealer, (and not clearly marked FAKE), you just found out what dealer to NEVER trust, ever. heck, even if the dealer was selling this as a fake I would never buy from him, since he should never sell fakes anyway, and should put this in his black cabinet. All good dealers have collections of fakes they have taken off the market, bad dealers just sell them, perpetuating the problems.[/QUOTE]
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