LaurenceB

5 hours ago, kimchi said:

@Tom4496 good to be cautious! The other thing with Queen's Beasts is that some do vary wildly in thickness (even on the rim on the same coin! ). Specific gravity test is pretty easy, best to callibrate your scales first. Our very own @BackyardBullion among others has an excellent video on Youtube on how to do it which I'm sure he is tired of posting a link to so please search for it and post the link before he gets the hump with me for tagging him in this post 🤣

@LaurenceB hope that helps you too. Let us know how you get on!

Many thanks. 

17 minutes ago, BackyardBullion said:

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The big boy is back from Hallmarking!

Damn, that looks good. 

2 hours ago, kimchi said:

Yep hard to read the thickness unless you know where the mint take it from. I had some concerns about some Perth Mint silver coins on weight and talked to them and they said some do vary (despite the specs listed being seemingly very exact). Not good enough really imvho.

I think you should be OK with that range of coins but for piece of mind try a specific gravity check (distilled water and everything sterilised).

You see? I only joined today and I have already learnt something new - specific gravity check. Thanks.