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[Steedg]

Hi thanks for letting me join 👍

 

im new to silver and wanted to start collecting bars as gold is way out of my league 

 

I’ve recently bought some 9999 Canadian coins that had been cut in half for some reason but one appears to have a brass/gold colour inside ? Is this fake or an impurity as the others look silver 

[5huggy]

Hi and welcome - you'll obtain plenty of education help from some of the Guru's on TSF 

Can I ask WHY? you bought coins that were "already" cut in half ????😕

[5huggy]

AND ALMOST CERTAINLY FAKE - if brass colour in side "SOLID SILVER MAPLE! 

[Steedg]

14 minutes ago, 5huggy said:

Hi and welcome - you'll obtain plenty of education help from some of the Guru's on TSF 

Can I ask WHY? you bought coins that were "already" cut in half ????😕

I got them for £5 so thought 🤷‍♂️ 

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13 minutes ago, 5huggy said:

AND ALMOST CERTAINLY FAKE - if brass colour in side "SOLID SILVER MAPLE! 

Fake ? Glad I didn’t lose much money then . Thanks for the input 

[KitboyE17]

Welcome 

[5huggy]

Thats your 1st lesson at £5 - there are lots of fakes - learn lots of info from this forum and you are far more unlikely to make BIGGER mistakes that could cost you dearly!

SO ENDETH Lesson One - - - 😉😊👍

[5huggy]

Cymru am byth!  BTW!

[Steedg]

15 minutes ago, 5huggy said:

Cymru am byth!  BTW!

Thanks and thanks for the welcome 😂

[Agpanda]

Hi and welcome to the forum from Sweden

[Piggybank]

Hi and welcome to the silver forum

[Draconicus]

Welcome to the forum dear friend @Steedg

Just curious, have you passed a magnet on that coins? If yes, what happened?

[Steedg]

2 minutes ago, Draconicus said:

Welcome to the forum dear friend @Steedg

Just curious, have you passed a magnet on that coins? If yes, what happened?

I haven’t to be honest . I’ll try find a magnet and se 👍

[Steedg]

3 minutes ago, Draconicus said:

Welcome to the forum dear friend @Steedg

Just curious, have you passed a magnet on that coins? If yes, what happened?

Just tried , not magnetic 

[5huggy]

54 minutes ago, Steedg said:

Just tried , not magnetic 

@Steedg are you aware of neodymium magnet test on Silver !?  Its a damn quick and easy test to do - awesome , instant results 

I'll find you the best video of this in action

 

[5huggy]

@Steedg

neodymium magnets silver test  - - if you put this into Youtube youll get plenty of examples

but here's a really good short vid - - - - >>>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s78mPc4QhiM

[5huggy]

I always think of it as sliding down through honey!

[5huggy]

@Steedg since you have mentioned you are looking at "BARS"  - heres a really good example of the test appropriate to Bars

- - - - >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgSXg-WOEVY

[Draconicus]

1 hour ago, Steedg said:

Just tried , not magnetic 

Thank you very much.

I must say I am surprised with the result. As normally fakes are of magnetic metal, not always but the majority.

[ChrisSilver]

Welcome to The Silver Forum  

As they are basically destroyed anyway, it wouldn't hurt to do an acid test on them. Would be an interesting experiment and you will be able to easily see if they are real or not. My presumption would be that the brass coloured one is plated in silver but inside is some other composite base metal. 

[CadmiumGreen]

Welcome aboard The Silver Forum!

[Steedg]

Well I’ve just had it tested from the pawn shop it was originally purchased from and it turned out 86% copper . The owner couldn’t apologise enough and gave some money back for the trouble so essentially I got this piece for free . It also turns out it was cut up to make colloidal silver 

[GrahamDiamond]

Welcome to the Silver Forum Coinster !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SergioSena]

welcome