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<p>[QUOTE="gxseries, post: 2431871, member: 4373"]It may still be possible to get them close to melt if the seller couldn't care less of how much he / she is going to get. However these days, you are more likely to get counterfeits. Low / high price does not necessary indicate something is amiss. </p><p><br /></p><p>At one stage where silver melt was around 50 usd / oz, this is when the flood of such counterfeits appeared. These were sold often for 40+ dollars where the production cost would probably have been around a dollar at most. Of course, this is still profitable for counterfeiters but not as much as before. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is actually a lot harder to tell as it's not a simple cast / poorly made copy. It's the overall details that give them away. Note that the weight is made close to the original weight (20.0g). The edge also has reasonably good details as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gxseries, post: 2431871, member: 4373"]It may still be possible to get them close to melt if the seller couldn't care less of how much he / she is going to get. However these days, you are more likely to get counterfeits. Low / high price does not necessary indicate something is amiss. At one stage where silver melt was around 50 usd / oz, this is when the flood of such counterfeits appeared. These were sold often for 40+ dollars where the production cost would probably have been around a dollar at most. Of course, this is still profitable for counterfeiters but not as much as before. This is actually a lot harder to tell as it's not a simple cast / poorly made copy. It's the overall details that give them away. Note that the weight is made close to the original weight (20.0g). The edge also has reasonably good details as well.[/QUOTE]
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