Fake 90% silver coins.

[Ardent Listener]

[HelloMeteor]

I've wondered if some of my morgans are fake, and have no idea how to tell. I bought them from APMEX.

[Thogey]

I Hate China!

[TXBullion]

Does anyone know what material they are using on those counterfeits?

[Thogey]

Ray's dime strategy looks pretty good.

Has anyone here discovered fake 90% in thier hoard?

[TXBullion]

Ray's dime strategy looks pretty good.

Has anyone here discovered fake 90% in thier hoard?

Whats the dime strategy ?

I have not but I tried identifying a suspect using this page

http://coinauctionshelp.com/Counterfeit ... ollar.html

[Thogey]

He buys dimes. He believes the tiny silver coins will be easy to trade with when silver skyrockets.

A by-product, IMO, is that there's not a whole lot of dime counterfieting going on...at this point

[TXBullion]

Oh yes I think I remember something about that , plus they dont really carry a premium so you are getting more Ag for $ unless they are slick.

[blackrabbit]

Thanks for posting this. Essential knowledge for silver bugs. I've bought fake crap on e-bay before, be suspect of old French large silver coins as well.

[walt2727]

Thank you for posting.

[rainsonme]

I bought some old chinese "silver" coins in San Fran last year, knowing they were probably fake. They looked really good; very much like silver; had proper markings on them, were old and a little worn. And a magnet stuck to each of them.

[Dvorak]

I'm overly paranoid about this, so I appreciate the lesson. Even when you buy from someone you trust completely, you never know who they might have got them from. I doubt there are many folks that can say they got their Morgan straight from the mint (GSA aside).

[rainsonme]

Just to add to the paranoia, most coin shops don't spend a lot of time inspecting their junk silver. They just dump it into the bin, or quickly roll it. So even if I buy from a coin shop I trust, I can't expect they've inspected and weighed each piece of junk coin I am buying for melt. I suppose the higher the price of silver goes, the lower down the denomination scale the counter-fitting will go. That might mean dimes would be the last 90% denomination to be polluted with counter-fits ---- or not; it might take a much more sensitive scale and caliper to determin a fake dime.

[rambo_k9]

Correct me if I'm wrong but don't the Chinese fakes have a decent amount of silver in them? Surely not mint grade but at the same time there is silver in them. Anyone know or melt one to see?

[Thogey]

The last chinese fakes I bought were Chinese coins. They were beautiful.

They stuck to a magnet like a fly on .....

[Ardent Listener]

The last chinese fakes I bought were Chinese coins. They were beautiful.

They stuck to a magnet like a fly on .....

Much like fake Chinese medicines, no side-effects. In fact, no effects at all.

[BOHICA]

I was at the coin shop yesterday and did not buy any dollars as I could see they were of two different thicknesses. I'm really leery of them now.