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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jloring, post: 1808583, member: 15518&quot;]He&#039;s not serious. But I would like to emphasize the point that the &quot;magnet test&quot;, whether it be just a plain old magnet or the &quot;slide&quot; test is, is well known in the numismatic community for its ineffectiveness. Many of the higher quality Chinese fakes are struck on 90% silver planchets, so testing for silver, weight, ring, etc., means nothing. Oh, it might weed out a few of the lower quality &quot;coins&quot; found at flea markets and such... but the real determination comes from ones knowledge of what a genuine coin looks like in hand, compared to what a fake looks like. And most &quot;scams&quot; today are perpetrated through electronic media, where tests are a nonentity.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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