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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 8353248, member: 115909&quot;]Oh yeah I have a Neodyium magnet except it looks different. It still works on the same principle though. I also bought calipers so I can measure the diameter and width of a coin and a jewelers scale so I can weigh it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Usually those 3 tests combined can detect a lot of fakes even if it’s not perfect and good fakes will still slip through since good fakes usually use real silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>If someone was counterfeiting an 1893 S Morgan Dollar for example it would be dumb not to use real silver since the numismatic is far beyond its melt value.</p><p><br /></p><p>They’d likely splurge and pay $15 or whatever for real silver bullion and make the coins out of that.</p><p><br /></p><p>In fact I once read that sometimes common gold &amp; silver coins are melted down and reminted into more valuable numismatic coins. Like melting down a bunch of common date problem coins and using the metal to strike coins like the 1893 S Morgan or the 1927 D St Gaudens.</p><p><br /></p><p>Those are scary because the coins are made of exactly the same composition of silver &amp; copper or gold &amp; copper as real coins due to being made of melted down real coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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