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New Member
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I believe this dollar to be a fake but would like some other opinions. This was given to me so I'm not worried about it being fake. So far it pings like silver, passes the ice cube test, is not magnetic and it weighs 26.63 grams.   |
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Pillar of the Community
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Edited by burfle23
12/28/2023 7:42 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Agreed, definitely fake.
Errers and Varietys.
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Moderator
 United States
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Along with your other tests you can try the tissue test as well, but as noted looks fake. John1  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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New Member
United States
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I thought it was good at first, but the date gave it away. A better fake for sure.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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There's a $60 version on the sleaze site that advertises as 90% silver. If true, you wouldn't be able to decide based on ping, tissue or weight tests.
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Pillar of the Community
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Excuse me, but what is the "ice cube test"?
Edited by jpsned
01/05/2024 4:18 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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From APMEX: "Ice Cube Test: This test is popularly recommended online but is unreliable in practice. The ice cube test requires placing an ice cube on a silver product and examining how fast it melts. Since silver is a highly conductive element, the ice cube should melt quickly on a pure silver product. Many factors could interfere with this test or accelerate the results. The silver could be warm from being held in one's hands or positioned under a lamp, for instance. Unless you time how quickly an ice cube melts on something silver and compare that to an ice cube of the same size allowing it to melt on something other than silver, you cannot rely on this test. Without knowing how fast something melts on a .999 Fine bar or coin and comparing that against an item of .925, .900, .800, .500. .100 coin or bar, you cannot ascertain the silver item's purity. Given the number of variables to control in a test like this, we believe this test is unreliable for most silver bugs out there." IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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The date on that "coin" is gross.
Does it have a lettered edge? If not that 110% confirms it's fake.
Edited by CalzoneManiac
01/10/2024 2:12 pm
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