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<p>[QUOTE="Randy Abercrombie, post: 4855218, member: 92655"]I just got back from swapping a bunch of junk silver for a double eagle. My buddy emptied all my rolls of silver and immediately pulled this out. The features are soft, it is extremely thin, and it appears cast. It weighs 1.2 grams, almost exactly half what a dime should weigh. So cool, somehow in my junk silver I ended up with a counterfeit dime....... But here's the kicker. He put it on a machine that confirmed the dime was silver. He checked and rechecked and the machine still says that the dime is silver. Well, I wanted to keep it at that point...... Thought I might throw it out for you guys to rationalize. Would it make sense for a counterfeiter to cast silver dimes half the correct weight? That seems an awful lot of effort to earn a nickel.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1172394[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1172395[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1172396[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Randy Abercrombie, post: 4855218, member: 92655"]I just got back from swapping a bunch of junk silver for a double eagle. My buddy emptied all my rolls of silver and immediately pulled this out. The features are soft, it is extremely thin, and it appears cast. It weighs 1.2 grams, almost exactly half what a dime should weigh. So cool, somehow in my junk silver I ended up with a counterfeit dime....... But here's the kicker. He put it on a machine that confirmed the dime was silver. He checked and rechecked and the machine still says that the dime is silver. Well, I wanted to keep it at that point...... Thought I might throw it out for you guys to rationalize. Would it make sense for a counterfeiter to cast silver dimes half the correct weight? That seems an awful lot of effort to earn a nickel. [ATTACH=full]1172394[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1172395[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1172396[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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