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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;teh_admiral, post: 3258822, member: 99788&quot;][USER=46237]@Jaelus[/USER] What I understand is that coins are minted at known karats / %, and if a coin varies from that there ought to be a legitimate reason i.e. quality control or theft issues. And what everyone understands is that if it&#039;s not the same as historically known values, then it&#039;s probably a fake. Which is why everyone&#039;s so upset: they don&#039;t know with certainty that theirs are fakes or not. I&#039;ve BEEN asking over and over: who&#039;s got some ACTUAL coin knowledge esp. related to sovereign minting and why there&#039;s such a LARGE variation in % (i.e. why mine&#039;s only +18k and not 22k, which the specific gravity test will confirm/deny when I have it done)? If you don&#039;t care about metal content, then you obviously don&#039;t care about fakes making it into your collection, because again, like I LINKED previously, many numismatists are so upset about the PREVALENCE of fakes they&#039;re pushing the US Mint to do something about it.........[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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