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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 623311, member: 112&quot;]jakal - what I have told you about ducats is 100% accurate. If you took 1000 genuine examples and weighed each and every one - every single one of them would weigh 3.5 grams, no more and no less. The tolerance levels of weight for these coins was less than 1%. Ducats were the single most important coin for 700 years. </p><p><br /></p><p>They were THE trade coin, issued by every country you can imagine. So a great deal of care went into making absolutely sure that the weight was correct on every single coin. Because of that, weight variations such as you mention make it a certainty that the coins are fake.</p><p><br /></p><p>Add to that the look of the coins, the soft mushy details and the texture of the surfaces and there is little if any reasonable doubt that the coins are fake. And selling them doesn&#039;t prove anything for there are very few people who know much of anything at all about ducats and that includes all but a handful of dealers worldwide. I probably know more about ducats than 99% of the people out there. But you can believe what you want to believe. </p><p><br /></p><p>Read this if you like, you will learn something - <a href="http://www.winsociety.org/newsletter/ducats/ducats.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.winsociety.org/newsletter/ducats/ducats.html" rel="nofollow">The Ducat</a></p><p><br /></p><p>edit - my guess is they are modern counterfeits[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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