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<p>[QUOTE="red_spork, post: 3225568, member: 74282"]You can find many threads here and other forums about people using the "ring test" on ancient silver coins. You don't want to do this. If the coin is heavily crystalline internally you might just break it.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Roman silver coin purity fluctuates far more than that of modern coins and most fakes are made of the correct metal(i.e. most silver denarii are made of actual silver). I doubt that such a test could really provide reliable authentication information.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="red_spork, post: 3225568, member: 74282"]You can find many threads here and other forums about people using the "ring test" on ancient silver coins. You don't want to do this. If the coin is heavily crystalline internally you might just break it. Roman silver coin purity fluctuates far more than that of modern coins and most fakes are made of the correct metal(i.e. most silver denarii are made of actual silver). I doubt that such a test could really provide reliable authentication information.[/QUOTE]
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