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Can You Recommend A Specific Silver Test Kit?

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 Posted 07/26/2012  11:21 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add johnstac to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Has anyone used a particular silver test kit that they are happy with? I want to begin testing any silver eagles, coins bought online/ebay. Preferably, something quick and simple to use.

Edit: Also wondering if in regards to the Eagles, would it be easier to just weight it? Would a silver eagle of a different type of metal weigh the same?
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07/26/2012 11:23 pm
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Never used these before but have heard good things. They have a bunch of different ones for all sorts of coins.

http://www.fisch.co.za/home.htm
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Silver test kits involve dropping acid on the coin or filing a part of the coin off to acid test. Both methods take away some/all of the premium value the coin might have had over melt.
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Option 1:
Find a friend with a decent metal detector.

Silver and copper coins register at the highest levels, because they are the highest conductors.
If I turn mine to "10", the only thing that will sound is copper or silver.
I can even discriminate modern copper plated pennies with confidence.

Option 2:
Heat the coins up with an induction heater.
Use a FLIR camera to view the coins, the silver coins will look different then other metals, at the same induced temperature.
You would have to build this rig and don't melt your coins!

Neither of these will tell you an accurate purity.
Example, a 95% copper coin sounds pretty much the same as a 98% copper coin with a my metal detector.
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A decent, not perfect test is to take a Silver coin to a jewler and ask them.
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if you are really worried, sell the coins and buy from some place that doesn't make you nervous.
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I use a rare earth magnet to check my coins. And I also wiegh them and measure them.
I would not want to do anything to a decent coin that might lower the value or eye appeal
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Males me wonder what the Lone Ranger did to check for Purity for his Silver Bullets. And in the movies or books on Warewoves, it is never clear as to the required purity of Silver in Bullets to kill a warewolf.
This would indicate there is a sure method for checking Silver Purities.
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