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<p>[QUOTE="MrNate, post: 2691530, member: 5515"]The author of this piece specializes in coins, so his advice on testing for knock off coin fakes is pretty fair. </p><p><br /></p><p>I wish an article like this wasn't so basic in the explanation, because an uninformed reader is now equipped to deal a damaging financial blow to themselves if they aren't careful. I can't tell you how many times I've read on a sellers post "it doesn't react to magnets so it must be real silver"...</p><p><br /></p><p>My view:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. If you are doing this more than occasionally, "invest" in a silver test kit for around $10 and watch a youtube video on how to test properly.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. If you don't want to damage a piece, ice cube test will rule out some base metals, but certainly not all of them. </p><p><br /></p><p>3. Ring ring ping test sounds like absolute garbage just to me. I have read it in other posts and I've tried to hear the difference between plated/sterling and I really can't hear any difference. More challenging is the idea that the items we find have different shapes, therefore different acoustic values. </p><p><br /></p><p>Not a terrible article, but certainly not a wealth of info either.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="MrNate, post: 2691530, member: 5515"]The author of this piece specializes in coins, so his advice on testing for knock off coin fakes is pretty fair. I wish an article like this wasn't so basic in the explanation, because an uninformed reader is now equipped to deal a damaging financial blow to themselves if they aren't careful. I can't tell you how many times I've read on a sellers post "it doesn't react to magnets so it must be real silver"... My view: 1. If you are doing this more than occasionally, "invest" in a silver test kit for around $10 and watch a youtube video on how to test properly. 2. If you don't want to damage a piece, ice cube test will rule out some base metals, but certainly not all of them. 3. Ring ring ping test sounds like absolute garbage just to me. I have read it in other posts and I've tried to hear the difference between plated/sterling and I really can't hear any difference. More challenging is the idea that the items we find have different shapes, therefore different acoustic values. Not a terrible article, but certainly not a wealth of info either.[/QUOTE]
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