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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3296618, member: 112&quot;]The tissue test is another old fashioned home test to tell if a coin is silver, and yes it works. But it too will render a false reading if the coin is plated. </p><p><br /></p><p>And that&#039;s kind of the thing, even the most modern testing methods can be beat, specific gravity, an XRF, an acid test - they can all be beat in one way or another. The one and only test that can&#039;t be beat when testing for silver is an assay, but even an assay cannot tell you if a coin is genuine or not because many fakes are made with the correct silver fineness.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bottom line, about the only thing that can confirm if a coin is genuine or not is an in hand examination by someone qualified to do that examination for that specific coin. And please note I did not use the word &quot;expert&quot; here, and I did not because there are many so called &quot;experts&quot; who are not qualified to do the examination. And as a result often declare a coin to be genuine when it isn&#039;t.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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