What tools do you need for silver dollar identification?

As the collecting craze continues to heat up, a variety of fake silver dollars are currently appearing in the antique market. In order to enable the majority of collectors to grasp some common sense of identification, the reporter recently interviewed Liu Sibao, a numismatic expert in our province. Mr. Liu said that in order to identify the authenticity of silver dollars, it is necessary to understand what fake silver dollars are available in the market and what characteristics they have.

Once you understand the types and characteristics of counterfeit silver dollars, it is easier to identify them. At present, the main characteristics of several counterfeit silver dollars commonly found in the market are as follows: Clip Silver Coins:

Its outer layer is wrapped with two layers of silver skin, the silver layer is thicker, and it is generally not easy to grind out traces when rubbed. This silver dollar, the most common type of counterfeit silver coin, contains copper, iron and other components, and its sound is really short, dull and no transposition. Silver Sanding Coins:

This silver coin has a rough surface, a blurry image, and weighs less than 20 grams. At present, most of the fake "Yuan Datou" silver dollars seen on the market belong to this category. Private Silver Coins:

It is a privately minted silver dollar. Yuan Datou coins, Sun Yat-sen founding commemorative coins, and Beiyang Longyang coins are all available, and this kind of counterfeit money is mainly trafficked from Taiwan's coin market. The common characteristics are that the sound is high-pitched, the quality is poor, and the fineness of silver is less than 80%.

Silver-plated silver coins: smooth surfaces, clear and fine patterns, and realistic fineness, exactly like real silver coins. The surface is silver-plated, and it is difficult to distinguish from the image and fineness.

Its weight is generally 20 to 22 grams, and although it is carefully made, the specific gravity cannot be balanced with that of real silver, so just weigh it to reveal its original form. Real silver coins, although worn out during circulation, do not fall below 25 grams (the standard weight is grams). Revised Credits:

This kind of silver coin cannot be identified by the naked eye by ordinary collectors, whether it is to test the fineness of the silver coin or to look at the packaging. The only way is to rely on a high-powered magnifying glass to identify, carefully look at each font and gap, whether there are traces of the carving, if there are traces of the carving, if there are traces of the carving, it is re-engraved. This method of counterfeiting is to engrave or dig out the original font of the real silver coin, and then paste the special silver characters on it to pass it off as a heirloom silver coin.

Silver Dollar Authenticator, but there are real silver high imitations that can fool through. Pallet balances, used to weigh too many high imitations, this is required. There is also the experience accumulated on a daily basis.

The characteristics of the real silver dollar are mainly that the sound is crisp and loud, with rhyme, and there is an aftersound when hitting each other, and vice versa; Look at the color of the coin surface is white, the pattern is natural and clear, and the color is delicate and rich. Of course, the process of real detailed identification can be summarized into four aspects: listening to the sound, looking at the shape, weighing, and determining the color.

Listen to the sound. This is the main method of silver dollar identification. Where the silver dollar is of high fineness, the sound is generally softer and more pleasant. Silver dollars with insufficient fineness, because of their high copper content, have a hoarse, short and muddy voice. False silver vowels are long, pointed, high, or low.

Listen to the sound by "knocking", gently pinch the center of the silver dollar with the tip of the thumb and middle finger of the left hand, and tap the edge of the silver dollar with the right hand to tap the edge, listen to its sound for identification, first pick out the abnormal and suspicious silver dollars, and then identify. The second is to touch it, hold a certain number of silver dollars (about 8 to 25) with your right hand, slide down 45 degrees obliquely to your left hand, listen to the sound of their collision, and combine patterns and patterns to identify.

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Where can you identify silver dollars? As follows:

Due to the rapid development of China's economy, the prosperity of the antique industry has seen a lot of centers to identify authenticity and falsehood, especially the silver dollar identification center, and there are even silver dollars specifically identified in a certain historical period, such as "Shanghai Daqing Silver Coin Identification Center" and so on, but the fees are often high, usually the service fee ranges from hundreds to tens of thousands, which are determined by the value of your silver dollar. In addition to the above, the Aizang platform can also identify the authenticity of silver dollars, they have professional appraisers for identification, and recently they have launched free appraisal activities, before the appraisal was also charged, and it is currently free. Follow their ***:

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