Within any collecting hobby, authentication is a crucial factor to building a good collection. But, knowing what qualities to look for and factors to seek can be daunting. Thankfully, there are professionals and collectors willing to share their knowledge with others.
Physicalgold.com is a gold and silver collecting website, featuring loads of content on coins, helpful resources, and more. Recently, the site posted the article “8 Proven Techniques to Check if a Coin is Counterfeit” to assist collectors in authenticating their coins. The article provides fairly easy steps for testing coins from using magnets to stacking to using ice cubes.
Check out physicalgold.com to read the article and view other content on coin collecting.