It is sad that people will work so hard to cheat others instead of just doing the right thing... very sad! Great information, as always Speg! Thanks for taking the time to share! Take care, be safe and God bless! 🇺🇸

I wouldn't be surprised if the ping tester came from the same people who made the fakes.

Got a fake South Africa Silver Krugerrand on ebay. Redunded w/o issue. Seller was not a coin dealer and sold items like cosmetics and other typical sidewalk merchant wares. I didn't research the seller first when i made the purchase. A good practice is to deal with coin dealers when purchasing on ebay. After a while, with experience, one can tell immediately that an item is fake. In my case, the weight was immediately noticeable as being light and the details on the coin such as the hair, beard and vegetation under the antelope were cheap.

Great little show. Often peeps tell you why it is fake, but when you show a legit coin next to a fake. The mistakes on the fake stand out like a cloud on a clear day. Thank you for comparing the fake to the real coin. even a novice can see WHY it is wrong.

Plenty of my gold and silver weights slightly more than 1oz (31.10 grams). You need to get batteries for your calipers.

Valuable video for any collector or stacker. Note also the poor quality details in QE's hair and the maple leaf itself.

Knowledge is power.

Great video, as always. Thanks for sharing with the community.

great video Speg.

Im guessing the reason that pure silver doesn't ping too much (sustain - we call it in the music biz) has to do with the softness of pure silver - Same thing happens with 999 gold , it just kinda hits and dies in a couple seconds. In a way , someone can imagine this as a piano string or guitar loosening the strings until they barely wiggle. A loose piano wire with still hit - but will die out quickly. The mixture of a small amount of copper in a coin , tightens it up , copper is harder than silver and gold and likely makes it sustain (the sweet spot seems to be just around 7% ) , sterling coins (.925) ping great ...90% is a little distorted , but still really rings out for a long time. Copper does not sound beautiful, but when mixed with silver and gold for a strange reason "harmonizes" great - makes me wonder if partial silver piano strings would work, or would they be too soft to handle the high amount of tension that a piano requires...perhaps just winding the strings would work? But yeah after pinging sterling silver , I want to try a piano with silver or gold winding for the lower strings. I bet that would sound way better. Thanks for the video :)

Good reason not to buy on ebay. I buy at hero and sd and just don't worry about testing everything. Did get some bu peace dollars at sd once that I felt a few of them had to be circulated. But mostly been happy with sd and hero. More so lately hero as their prices have been better.

Great video ... snd s goof ude of the red book for facts!

Always buy from reputable bullion dealers. Maybe you pay a little more, but you are unlikely to get fakes. eBay, FB, online bullion dealers with little or no history…I stay away from them like the plague. I sleep well at night knowing that everything I’ve bought is 100% genuine.

Why aren't the websites that are selling fakes shut down? Isn't the Secret Service prosecuting offenders?

Love that OTF knife! :) I have a Benchmade "Infidel" and a couple of Bokers

Hope you and coinguy are safe. The hurricane 🌀 is going to be close to you guys

Killer video 😊

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Nice Microtech! In my top 5 knives :)

Hey speg, why do people not like cleaned coins?