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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 7913162, member: 115909&quot;]Based on what I see it looks fake.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m looking around the rims on both the obverse and reverse and as you said it looks like a base metal coin with a silver wash.</p><p><br /></p><p>Have you weighed it and measured it with calipers?</p><p>Also have you done the magnet test?</p><p><br /></p><p>Silver has a different weight than base metals and so if the coin isn&#039;t 90% silver it will either be underweight or the size will be larger and it will be the correct weight but oversized.</p><p><br /></p><p>Often bad fakes can be identified with simple tests like those. However it&#039;s true that some of the higher quality counterfeits will pass those tests but it doesn&#039;t mean you shouldn&#039;t try.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;I am not an expert by any means though so I would recommend waiting for members with more experience than me to pitch in.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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