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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1829438, member: 57463&quot;]We engage <b>all</b> of our senses. One of the tests for counterfeits is the ring test: you balance the coin on your finger (or a pencil) and you tap it to hear it ring.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just the other day, discussing ancients with another technical writer, I put into her hands an Athenian Owl Tetradrachm c. 450 BCE and a Sinope didrachm c. 400BCE and I told her, <b>&quot;After 2500 years in the ground, there ain&#039;t much you can do by holding it.</b>&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>When I worked at Coin World, one of the other editors, Tori Stone-Moledor, taught me to <b>smell</b> coins for traces of alteration.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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