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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2486992, member: 19463&quot;]I certainly would take up your friend&#039;s offer on having the coin expertised.&nbsp; My gut reaction is that it is fake based on some slurring of details and the 89% silver (most should be higher) but the new weight of 17g is OK.&nbsp; I did not know that David Sear &#039;guaranteed&#039; his opinions. By &#039;guaranteed&#039; I mean he would pay you the $400 if he turned out to be wrong not just refund you fees for his services.&nbsp; NGC experts are certainly as &#039;expert&#039; and I would accept their opinion as most likely correct in 99.9% of the cases.&nbsp; Their business model just recognizes that they would have to insure themselves against an expensive error and that would raise their prices above what the market would bear.&nbsp; The other problem is whose word would both parties accept that the coin was in fact bad.&nbsp; Complete with a certificate from either source, you will find some guy in a shop somewhere that will tell you the opposite.&nbsp; This is rather like a case decided by the Supreme Court does not mean right and truth have been reached but only that 4-5 end of the line experts overruled 4 others and there is not a lot left to do about it.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Given the photos and the data, I would not buy the coin.&nbsp; If the seller is willing to abide by NGC but has never heard of Sear, that might be the best choice.&nbsp; I will be interested in seeing the results.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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