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<p>[QUOTE="superc, post: 1836246, member: 44079"]In all honesty, weigh the silly thing. It should be within a few tenths or hundredths of the correct weight and the size should be correct also. It should weigh 12.44 grams (you can possibly accept anything from 12.38 up to 12.45, coins do wear and lose weight when they do, but some would argue on that and reject an otherwise perfect coin that only weighed 12.38). It should be 30.6 mm in diameter. The edge should be reeded. It may very well turn out to be real, but all we can tell from a picture is, if it is a fake copy, it is of better quality than many. Frankly, I love the idea of it being a $5 fake, but made of actual 90% silver, with a lot of time and trouble wasted by someone to get it looking real only to let it go for less than the silver melt value ($7.06 at today's price).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="superc, post: 1836246, member: 44079"]In all honesty, weigh the silly thing. It should be within a few tenths or hundredths of the correct weight and the size should be correct also. It should weigh 12.44 grams (you can possibly accept anything from 12.38 up to 12.45, coins do wear and lose weight when they do, but some would argue on that and reject an otherwise perfect coin that only weighed 12.38). It should be 30.6 mm in diameter. The edge should be reeded. It may very well turn out to be real, but all we can tell from a picture is, if it is a fake copy, it is of better quality than many. Frankly, I love the idea of it being a $5 fake, but made of actual 90% silver, with a lot of time and trouble wasted by someone to get it looking real only to let it go for less than the silver melt value ($7.06 at today's price).[/QUOTE]
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