Fake Silver Or Is It Real?

[ukanonymous]

http://i.imgur.com/DQGLLAQ.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/DQGLLAQ.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/6WuIj4W.jpg
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I* bought this coin from overseas and here are the results of the acid spot test. It is supposed to be 0.999 silver how can I tell if it is real or not thank you.

[stewey]

Mikey4444 knows a lot about silver, and he often posts in chatterbank. Perhaps post the question there" "FAO Mikey444.

[stewey]

Yes: I don't understand the pictures also.

[kvalidir]

Careful where yo acid test thing UKA, you can render them totally fubar and worthless for anything except scrap value if you aren't careful. What you are looking for in an acid test is it NOT changing colour- which looks like it hasn't.

[woofgang]

fubar...is that a technical term?

[EcclesCake]

It's a military term Woof....fecked up beyond all repair...

[theprof]

Eh Noodlearms? The figures provided in your second link are only true for an item made from 100% silver. I doubt that the OP's coin is made from pure silver due firstly to the cost and secondly, the softness of the pure metal.

Once you disregard pure silver, you have to consider that the coin is made of an alloy. There are thousands of silver alloys. Fractional alterations in densities of an alloy would put you off track so it's a waste of time. Furthermore, I doubt whether the OP could access a sufficiently accurate scale to do this work himself.

[theprof]

Labs nowadays use ED-XRF, PIXE and other methods to retrieve the information required by the OP. However, the method is not cheap and you'd need access to a university or research lab.

[ukanonymous]

its a coin minted in China. The acid turned from dark brown to a light blue.