It’s very difficult to counterfeit silver coinage. If it were easier to do so, don’t you think our dimes and quarters today would look and feel and sound more like silver?
Our coins today have that copper slice in the middle, and are lighter, and don’t sound the same as old 90% silver coinage dated from 1964 or earlier. We know our silver rounds are real also by the weight, sound, and feel of them. We’ve visited the mint, and seen the production lines, and know it’s silver, as the mint starts out with .999 fine silver bars. We’ve cut them open to check, and weighed them. There are two tests for 100 oz. silver bars. The first is the ring test. Put a silver bar on a glass counter top, or suspend it in the air with a piece of string, like dental floss. Bang it with a wooden spoon. It will ring, because silver has a great resonance, which is why they used silver to make musical wind instruments like trumpets. The poured bars do not ring as well as extruded machined bars will ring. The second test is the ice test. Push a cube of ice into the bar. Silver is the greatest conductor of heat, and so the latent heat of the bar will quickly move into the point of co
