If you can bend them with your teeth, it is a fake coin.
Not many fake coins are made from real silver or gold. Take it to a jeweler to be tested, most will do this for you.
Yes, I have some counterfeit coins, they are used for reference and teaching tool's.
Not many fake coins are made from real silver or gold. Take it to a jeweler to be tested, most will do this for you.
If you paid about 40 dollars for then yes they probably used real coins. If you paid 10 for then its probably a fake.
1 in 10 tens coins in the world are fake
Real Silver has the numbers 925 on it, but fake Silver doesn't. And real silver won't fade, but will tarnish and fake will fade and turn into like a copper color.
you look inside
All coins come from a mint. Casino coins are sometimes solid silver.
There were proof sets made in 1974 and 1975 where all 8 of the coins were silver, and proof sets made during those years when none of them were silver. Assuming that your coins are in a set, check the 1 Cent coin - if it looks silver, then all the coins in the set are silver; if it looks bronze, then none of the coins in the set are silver.
Just recently with the advent of bullion coins such as the American Silver Eagle. Coins intended for circulation were never 100% silver because silver is simply too soft of a metal for coinage. They were 90% silver in American coins until 1964 for dimes, quarters and half dollars, but other than bullion coins, no coins are made of 100% silver.
The Carson City mint only operated from 1870 to 1893. There are many fake "CC" coins with other dates so if you have an 1840 'dollar' with that mint mark it's a fake.