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Message:: [QUOTE="jloring, post: 1212111, member: 15518"]I hear ya big guy (and it was nice meeting you at the Burlington NJ show), but unforunately even dealers are having a tough time detecting the newer crop of Chinese fakes (i.e., Susan Headley's F.U.N. convention experiment a few years back). I doubt if the coins were steel (I have yet to see a "replica" coin that's magnetic, but I've only become familiar with them over the past five years) unless they were really old fakes. I ran a little test myself a few years ago, purchasing a bust dollar from one of the better known Chinese counterfeiters. His auction page stated "90% silver", which, after receipt, it appeared to be. Everything seemed correct about the coin... the wear characteristics, the patina, the edge letttering... so I took it down the road to the local B&M. After a five minute examination by the owner (including a "ring" test), he offered me $900. That's when I gave him the bad news, and scared the pants off of him at the same time. So, you are correct my friend when you state "it's very unforunate for all of us".[/QUOTE]