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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Just Carl, post: 449518, member: 4552&quot;]In reality your the closest to what is sometimes done. Many, many metals and sometimes not even metals are used to counterfeit coins. What everyone here is missing is the fact that most counterfeiters really don&#039;t care about the weight of the coins. For example I&#039;ve purchased fakes that were pure Lead of a Standing Liberty Half. It was so funny and bad of a fake that I couldn&#039;t resist buying the stupid thing. What some do is to mix just about anything to make a coin and then, if necessary, plate the thing. In China there was a counterfeiter making Silver Dollars out of pure Silver. The intent was to sell as a rare date, not the fact that it was a erroneous metal. May have used $10 or more in metal but sold the coins for hundreds and the buyers thought they were cheating someone by buying a thousand dollar coin for a few hundred. Not always metals are used also. For example Bronze is a combination of metals and occationally Silicon, Phosphorus, etc. are also a part of the mixture. </p><p>The main problem here is your all mixing up criminals with chemist or a physics major. Crooks just don&#039;t care about the contents of coins. Only if they can sell the stupid things to stupid people. And they do.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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