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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hoky77, post: 7420144, member: 97374&quot;]Many of the fakes are made with alloys that aren&#039;t close to the .900 purity. I have somewhere a counterfeit Trade Dollar that looks very real and was proven fake with a very easy test.. A senior member of the local coin club showed me a trick where you balance the coin on the tip of your finger and gently tap the edge with another coin. If the alloy is proper there will be a pleasing pinggggg. If not there will be a dull sounding tone. Try this with a 1964 Kennedy Half that is 90% silver, then a 40% and a clad to get the idea of what real silver sounds like. This simple test doesn&#039;t prove every coin to be real but it can eliminate some fakes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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