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ExoGuy Pillar of the Community United States 4421 Posts	Posted 01/03/2017 08:12 am An old friend of mine works for a parking management company in a major city. As all the receipts pass through his hands, I've long suggested to him that he should learn to recognize silver coins. Until now, he's shown no interest in coins, whatsoever. After finding the below, two coins among a day's receipts and replacing them with two one dollar bills, he phoned me. I suggested that he hold a refrigerator magnet to them. It stuck to the 1894-S but not to the 1922. The counterfeit 1894-S is noticeably lighter, weighing but 19.4 grams. The 1922 weighs a regulation 26.7 grams. Whereas the counterfeit displays the typical XF detail, the 1922 appears to be nearly uncirculated. It's unknown whether these came from the same person, but I'd guess that's quite likely. I'm now hopeful that my old buddy will want to look for the silver coins that likely pass through his hands! Report this Post to the Staff

davec13 Pillar of the Community United States 757 Posts	Posted 01/03/2017 08:16 am I'll double his money if he wants to get rid of the bogus Morgan. Report this Post to the Staff
ExoGuy Pillar of the Community United States 4421 Posts	Posted 01/03/2017 08:26 am I'm planning to pass these around at a local coin club. I'll take a magnet and scale to the meeting, hoping that this "show and tell" demonstration will be educational for some. Report this Post to the Staff
moxking Rest in Peace United States 17900 Posts	Posted 01/03/2017 08:32 am Excellent idea Exoguy. Being shown an example and demonstrating how the fake is detected is a great help. Good luck getting your buddy to look for silver. Maybe you could volunteer to help count the daily catch Report this Post to the Staff
davec13 Pillar of the Community United States 757 Posts	Posted 01/03/2017 08:41 am That's a very good idea. I have a lot of counterfeits in my collection. Some are so good I could easily pass them off and no one would ever be the wiser. On the other hand some are so bad it's amazing they were ever accepted by anyone. I have been slowly getting them all catalogued for my own personal information. I have an xrf scanner and break them down by composition, weight, diameter, and magnetic or not. At the local coin shows all the regular dealers know me and they pull their bogus coins for my collection. I also take the XRF with me and every show I find a few that people are trying to sell are counterfeit. The dealers will tell them it's a counterfeit yet the person is sure it's real and the dealer is trying to "rip them off". When you pull out the scanner and show them their "silver" coin is 90% tin they stop arguing. Report this Post to the Staff
Coinfrog Bedrock of the Community United States 94367 Posts	Posted 01/03/2017 4:45 pm Great story, great idea. Report this Post to the Staff
coinlover1899 Pillar of the Community United States 3058 Posts	Posted 01/03/2017 9:55 pm The 1922 is a beautiful coin! Report this Post to the Staff
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