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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 7932539, member: 24314&quot;]<i>Dear Gam, </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>I&#039;ll repeat this so it sinks in: You can throw away your scales, hand-held&#039;s and hand lenses. </i></p><p><br /></p><p>Gam3rBlake, posted: &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.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately there is no way to defend my comment without coming off as a jerk; nevertheless, I have found that except for some long-time specialist dealers and collectors who MAY often know more about what they collect than many long time experienced authenticators at a TPGS, most dealers know swat.&nbsp; Slabbed coins guarantee that any good business person can be a successful coin dealer.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for your example using SE, before your dealer got it on his balance the experienced authenticator would have know it was bad 99% of the time.&nbsp; EVENTUALLY, this may not be true but we are not there yet!&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>One of the biggest waste of times for me is to take a crappy, across the room fake and place it on the scale so I can write the low weight of the fake on the flip in order to prevent any controversy.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>So you keep your scale, magnet, and other tools, as <b><span style="color: #b30000">I believe EVERYONE should have them.&nbsp; I do. </span></b> I just don&#039;t find them very useful anymore.&nbsp; There is a much bigger Boogieman coming.</p><p><br /></p><p>PS&nbsp; The only magnetic fakes I&#039;ve seen were gifts that were so crude looking that I would not embarrass any of my students by asking if the thing were genuine.&nbsp; Nevertheless, I do understand that the average person in the US has never seen a Peace Dollar and the Internet is full of &quot;Ex-Perts&quot; scaring everyone with crude magnetic reproductions. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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