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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 7748911, member: 59677&quot;][USER=115909]@Gam3rBlake[/USER] </p><p><br /></p><p>The ancients may not have had electroplating technology, but they certainly had chemical ways of enriching the surface, see <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=446.0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=446.0" rel="nofollow">Silver wash? (forumancientcoins.com)</a></p><p><br /></p><p>A test cut shows that the coin isn&#039;t silver over a base metal. It doesn&#039;t tell you WHAT that metal is (could be low purity silver billion and it still looks silver).</p><p><br /></p><p>Better testing, such as a specific gravity test was certainly within capabilities by the time of steam-pressed coins which are the chopmarked trade dollars.</p><p><br /></p><p>You are seeing the eternal race between counterfeiting and the genuine item - better counterfeits &lt;=&gt; better tech. Which comes first is a bit of chicken/egg.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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