Is This A Fake Silver Coin

It may appear as a fake but the tooling and enameling that a jeweler did to turn a silver dollar into a late Victorian brooch make it look like anything but authentic...maybe not any longer.

If you have a small smooth magnet that's very strong, you can try tilting the coin and see if the magnet slides slowly down. If it slides fast, it's not silver. Do the same thing with a fairly large recent non-silver coin to compare.

You could put plastic wrap on the coin to protect it.

If the magnet isn't strong enough, it will slide fast. If it's hard to remove from your refrigerator, it should be strong enough. A neodymium magnet should work.

Wouldn't it be safe with 2-3 layers of plastic wrap? A flip would normally work, too, but this coin has those projections on it.

Regardless of real or not, now damaged.

Probably real but the obv has been extensively "reworked" as part of the enameling process.



True but this isn't a potentially valuable coin.

Yikes!



to the CCF!

It looks oversized to me. Hard to tell without something for comparison.

Based on the reverse, I think this started out as a genuine Morgan dollar. Somebody did something to the obverse (enameling, perhaps) and turned it into jewelry, thus destroying any numismatic value. But I wouldn't call it "fake."