Alert: Fake 40% US Silver Received In A Purchase

nice catch! :)

-J

People sure sell you a lot of fake silver.

Silver getting expensive daily, and counterfeiters will do anything to rip people off. How good are these strikes comparing the real coins?

As requested, here are some beautiful photos (I just got a new Sony Camera FX9), wow I was amazed at how good they turned out.
When I encounter 40% halve dollars, their edge are usually "depressingly greyish" in color, now this is a really bad mocking of it. Also, the Ike dollar appears to be near fully white which is not right because it's supposed to be greyish like the 40% half dollar...
As for checking out your collection, just do a sound test. I'm very confident that all of you have already played around with your silver coins and have familiarize yourself with the sounds.
If that does not work, proceed to smelling them. I would say it works for coins of purities 90%+. Silver smells sweet like distilled water, it is clean and fresh. Now, the bicentennial set that I have in this case smells very acidic and strong. The last fake sunshines I had, the smell was entirely strong and had been stuck up in my mind LOL.

For 1000oz bars, please cut that thing up or send it to NGC for analysis, now those seem very fishy to me.

You guys have salaries and so do I but a negative salary LOL (college debt), and I'm bringing this up because I don't want masterminds, especially the Chinese under the shrouds of darkness who produce fake silver to sell it to you guys. Please be more careful when buying silver especially starting NOW because this is starting to break loose.

Sorry for the long post.

Sorry, that was an error on behalf of my scale failing to tare 0, it weighs 0.28g less at 24.42g but that's still pretty significant much?

@macmercury, no, the seller is from the US and he decided to give the 40% set and a Lincoln/Kennedy 4 Coin Set (contained a genuine 1964 90%ner) as a free gift. In total, I spent over $20 so I'm not upset but rather was surprised at how even 40%ners would be copied. For example, would you be shocked if suddenly there are 35% Silver War Nickels started circulating? Therefore, in purchasing silver especially in large amounts it would be wise to sample a source first before buying in bulk.

In addition, the rims of the fake coins are quite sharp, moving my finger from the center of the obverse/reverse to the rim would definitely easily trim some cells off lol. Please keep in mind that fake silver will look and feel much more sharper than the ones that are genuine.

When I saw the asian characters (chinese?) for the album immediately I thought you got these from china

why would anyone fake 40% silver for profit taking?
aren't there better ways to make money counterfeiting money?! Does it worth to make such a cheap fake with such a quality? With such good fakes I think they would be better off by faking old us commemoratives ... using silver ... and getting much more on numismatic value ...

this is one heck of a good fake I'd say, if it is ...

for me Ike looks good ... but I held only few Ikes in my hand and not an expert at all ...

Tell us what brand of the scales are you using? For some scales .24gr is not that much.