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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PaddyB, post: 2953500, member: 40017&quot;]In the end I did not say anything to the auction house when I returned. I have checked these fakes before - they pass the magnet and weight tests, they just look and feel all wrong and are presumably not silver. (Silver testing does too much damage for the auction houses to attempt on a potentially valuable coin.) So it would have been my unprovable opinion against the vendor and potential buyers.</p><p><br /></p><p><u>IF</u> the buyers get them checked out and bring them back to the auction house in good time, they will get their money back under the terms of Auction house laws in the UK, <u>BUT</u> I suspect the buyers were private collectors and so it may be years before the fraud is exposed, by which time it will be too late. That is what annoys me most - if a dealer makes an unwise buy, then &quot;caveat emptor&quot; seems fair, but when it is the inexperienced private collector who gets caught...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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