I'm calling BullPuckey on this. This doesn't pass the smell test. What jewelery store "takes in & holds" over the counter coins? Anyone reading this horse manure ever tried to trade up even a used karat gold neckchain at a local "jewelry" store? ALL legit jewelery stores have all the toys for testing silver, gold, platinum and clear + colored stones, regardless of shape or condition. What jeweler isn't familiar with the 2nd most recognizable US Coin ever made? What "jeweler" doesn't own a magnet? Even the schlock silver neckchain gig is well known in the trades and a magnet is what is used by the so called Jeweler to not get stuck with silver plated S/S neck chains from his own high volume wholesale supplier with this scam which has been known about for years. What jeweler in this day and age doesn't have the internet? It's a simple thing to check for basic coin wt info. Are we now to believe the jewelery store doesn't own gram scales? This isn't a jewelry store, this is a pawn shop story. And it still smells. B/C as a pawnshop, most states require the pawnbroker to hold "over the counter purchases" for xyz days so the local LEOs can check for stolen goods. No jeweler calls in a 3rd party customer to verify jack!!!!!! And the newbie poster is a real wingnut who posted this. Take a sec to click on the "user name" and check out what normal fare is for posting by this wingnut. S/He should run not walk to the ATF and report this b/c S/HE's now an accomplice after the fact in a counterfeiting scam and that's some serious poo. To add to the "color of this fabrication" s/he's just now flagged his own IP by stupidly posting this false flag story on this forum. WHAT A CROCK! PS...TITAN...if you're stackin' silver, you only need under $20 worth of supplies and you're fixed for LIFE by making your own silver test solution on demand. It's called Schweters Test Solution. Check out free to join Gold Refiners Forum for instructions as to how to make it, by a poster named GSPro. Save money and use a washed out Visine eyedropper bottle with a good twist cap on it for your testing solution. beefsteak