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

I Hate China!

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

Ray's dime strategy looks pretty good.

Has anyone here discovered fake 90% in thier hoard?

Thogey wrote: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

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

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.

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.

Thank you for posting.

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.

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).

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.

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?

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

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

Thogey wrote: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.

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.