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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rzage, post: 1002123, member: 14070&quot;]As stated the Chinese are using 90% sillver US coin metal on their higher end fakes , so weight and even specific gravity alone are not definative of a good or bad coin . Awhile back I bought a Trade ( raw ) dollar off of someone on this forum . I took the coin to Tom Delorey , a well known Trade dollar expert who wrote an article on Modern Chinese TD fakes . His opinion was while there was no red flags to lead him to say fake or not , meaning the design was near perfect , something about the surface microstrucure made him lead for saying it was a fake . But to tell for sure he would need better equipment which he didn&#039;t have at the time . The lesson here is if evan a top notch expert can&#039;t always be sure don&#039;t buy any Trade dollar raw , buy certified . And weight doesn&#039;t prove anything unless it is out of the coins known tolerences .</p><p>rzage[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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