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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;teh_admiral, post: 3256796, member: 99788&quot;][USER=46237]@Jaelus[/USER] Did you or anyone else even bother to read the links?? Of course you do, to verify its karat / %. Just because you know someone who&#039;s &quot;in the biz&quot; doesn&#039;t mean he/she is immune to fakes. Because again : PIRATE. Do you all think the experts don&#039;t have a stake in remaining the experts? Do you think they can handle the ding to their reputation if they were to admit being had? APMEX knows what they&#039;re doing, except the sovereign I received is NOT 22k. So who knows who&#039;s doing what? Because I KNOW my sovereign isn&#039;t 22k, but obviously APMEX didn&#039;t or they wouldn&#039;t have sold it. And again, go back to the link where other numismatists break down the mathematics behind an XRF. Because if you don&#039;t understand the math behind the XRF test, then I don&#039;t consider you to be a real coin collector...</p><p><br /></p><p>And I didn&#039;t ask anyone for their opinions on scratch testing; I asked what do you all do when you KNOW the coin isn&#039;t the karat you were told. But I guess none of you would know since no one has the minerals to have their metal tested. Everyone just wants everyone else to take their word as gold. Go YouTube the Edward Bernays clip where he goes on Letterman and says, &quot;[marketing] is about you calling me doctor and other people believing it.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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