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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 7931655, member: 115909&quot;]That’s not always true. One of the dealers I went to in Florida was able to identify several fake American Silver Eagles with a scale.</p><p><br /></p><p>They weighed 28.8 grams instead of 31.1 and since they were all in BU condition they wouldn’t have lost over 2 grams of silver in wear and tear.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I’m not saying they will identify every counterfeit out there. Obviously that isn’t the case.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I find having a scale, calipers, and neodymium magnet to be the first line of defense in detecting fake</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Most importantly they can all be used as non-invasive tests.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>These days people are actually faking ASEs <i>in </i>NGC slabs graded MS70.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes it’s kinda funny because they have scratches all over and are still faked as MS70.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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