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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 17141, member: 669&quot;]If a coin weighs the proper amount it may or may not be genuine, but 100% of those which vary significantly from the correct weight, up or down, are fake.&nbsp; The first auction you linked to has a 22g version of a 27.22 gram coin - 19% light.&nbsp; The other one has a .8 oz version (about 22.7g) - 20% light.&nbsp; Cases closed!</p><p><br /></p><p>Either is possible, although both of the ones you posted &quot;smell&quot; like modern &quot;replicas&quot; - items designed to defraud collectors - rather than &quot;contemporary counterfeits&quot; - items designed for cheating in commercial transactions.&nbsp; Some authorities believe that there were more fake U.S./Japanese/British trade dollars and other 19th Century circulating crown-sized silver than there were genuine.&nbsp; Not satisfied with that supply, the crooks keep making new ones, especially in China and Bulgaria. Only in countries which have and respect laws about such matters. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie4" alt=":mad:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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