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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1554404, member: 26302&quot;]Yep, matching the SG means it will have all correct dimensions. Heck, on a simplistic level just add some lead to common &quot;white metal&quot; to get to the correct SG. Counterfeiters in the ancient world were doing this 2500 years ago. Silver coins were ALWAYS more suspect than gold since it was so much easier to replicate the correct SG to fool someone. In ancient times a core of lead and copper or tin were mixed until it was about the correct weight, (didn&#039;t have the fancy scales we do know), and plated with silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>Btw, there was a thread here 6? months ago showing new fake maple leafs. They were almost perfect, but if you drilled into the coin you would find the pot metal core. They are plated with a fairly thick plating of silver, but still only have about 1/10 an ounce of real silver, the rest junk metal.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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