Dectecting Counterfeit Gold

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  Windycity Posts: 3,603 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 27, 2007 5:20AM

  ttt - any thoughts?

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  TwoSides2aCoin Posts: 45,086 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 27, 2007 5:23AM

  The book called The Official Guide to Coin Grading and Counterfeit Detecting is a must. There are other sources of information, but ... the book covers many ways to determine fakes. Some are DIE/Tool marks, or just Weight and size. Get the book ...it's 20 bucks and worth it.
  
  
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  STONE Posts: 15,275 ✭

  January 27, 2007 5:25AM

  I second Joe's input. The book is quite good at this. Also, if you pick up the ANA's Detection of Counterfeit and Altered Coins Correspondence Course or go to the course, that's also very helpful.

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  mrpaseo Posts: 4,753 ✭✭✭

  January 27, 2007 5:28AM

  Just bite the coin, if you sink in it's real...
  
  Right?
  
  lol
  
  I'm getting silly, I'm outa hair (Yes I know thats the wrong here)
  
  

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  PerryHall Posts: 47,584 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 27, 2007 9:18AM

  Bill Fivaz authored a book on counterfeit gold coin detection which contains a lot of high quality photos of fake gold coins showing their diagnostics. Well worth getting if you are brave enough to buy raw gold.

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  Dentuck Posts: 3,850 ✭✭✭✭

  January 27, 2007 9:30AM

  Bill's book is the United States Gold Counterfeit Detection Guide.
  
  Here are some pages from the book: Click here to see.

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  Gandyjai Posts: 1,380 ✭✭

  January 27, 2007 9:35AM

  I have a pretty simple way.....
  Carry a strong magnet in your pocket when viewing raw gold at estate sales and auctions.
  I carry a broken off piece of a speaker magnet....If there is ANY attraction at all...I won't bid!!!!
  
  Brian
  
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  Regulated Posts: 2,994 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 27, 2007 10:25AM

  There are good books out there, but if you really want to learn authentication, you should take the ANA summer seminar course taught by JP Martin and Bob Campbell. I think you can probably sign up for it now...

  
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  Longacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭

  January 27, 2007 11:28AM

  The Fivaz book is great.

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  PerryHall Posts: 47,584 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 27, 2007 7:46PM

  
  
  << <i>I have a pretty simple way.....
  Carry a strong magnet in your pocket when viewing raw gold at estate sales and auctions.
  I carry a broken off piece of a speaker magnet....If there is ANY attraction at all...I won't bid!!!! >>
  
  
  
  I hope you aren't being serious. Most fake gold coins have the proper fineness and weight of gold. I've never heard of a fake gold coin being made of steel so the magnet test is worthless for gold coins.
  
  
  
  

  Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
  "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
  "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

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