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<p>[QUOTE="InfleXion, post: 1551356, member: 29012"]There is a lot of junk silver being faked in China. You can recognize it because it looks sand blasted. The edges are crisp but the wear is perfectly even, and for as crisp as the edges are it should be shinier. It's pretty hard to find older coins that are both non-shiny and evenly worn. </p><p><br /></p><p>I bought the majority of my stack directly from the mint that produced the bars so there's no worry about counterfeit. Other than that I stick to government bullion as well as junk silver for smaller denominations since it's a lot cheaper than fractionals.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="InfleXion, post: 1551356, member: 29012"]There is a lot of junk silver being faked in China. You can recognize it because it looks sand blasted. The edges are crisp but the wear is perfectly even, and for as crisp as the edges are it should be shinier. It's pretty hard to find older coins that are both non-shiny and evenly worn. I bought the majority of my stack directly from the mint that produced the bars so there's no worry about counterfeit. Other than that I stick to government bullion as well as junk silver for smaller denominations since it's a lot cheaper than fractionals.[/QUOTE]
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