Sigma PMV reviews?
derryb
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would like to hear from the owners of the Sigma Precious Metal Verifier on how well it works and ease of use. Interested in its ability to detect plated items with 100% accuracy.
"Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey
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So, here are a few thoughts...
If you are buying from the public, silver or gold, you need this thing...
There is a slight learning curve on how to read it, but the more I use it the better I like it...
A customer came in with 4 ngc slabbed gold coins, 2 saints and 2 KR's...
They all had a slightly different shade to them so we put them to the test..
All 4 were bad, the arrow's pointed off the chart -->
I still have not heard back to see if he was able to return the coins or not...
Another situation where a guy had a one pound silver Morgan 999 silver....
The dot on the machine would not get between the brackets, so I filed the face....
Copper inside.. Plated... so the machine paid for itself twice last week...
Look at the cheek of the big silver coin.. Copper ...
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As an aside does anyone know if gold coins submitted to a TPG for grading are checked with a PM verifier? NGC would have a lot of egg on their face if the slabs are authentic, but the coins aren't.
Here are a couple scary fakes that came into my local bullion shop.
The owner there uses it for every purchase, I help him out sometimes... I've never seen it wrong and he swears by it.
Click on this link to see my ebay listings.
So if its real a bar shows up in the middle of the brackets or what??
You select the metal you are testing and a bar inside the brackets indicates authentic. Outside the brackets indicates not authentic. Biggest advantage to the PMV is that it reads through any authentic plating to indicate a not authentic core.
"Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey