I was so excited this morning to finally receive my package. My order was a 20 gram pure silver bar that was supposedly made from India. It was from a Facebook seller that I've purchased from a few times already. He seems legit as all other items I've gotten before were okay.
But as soon as I unboxed it, I immediately could tell that it was not silver. It was a very hard metal. I want to say it was similar to the feel of stainless steel it was non-magnetic. I weighed it and it was exactly 20 grams. But the dead give away for me that it was not silver was the ping test I made. It had a short hard sound, typical of common metals. Copper, silver and other similar metals have a higher pitch sound that reverbirates for a long time.
So from there, I immediately knew I got a fake 20 gram silver bar. It was hard for me to accept as I was expecting fresh silver in my hands. I also don't want to judge the seller immediately and would like to give him the benefit of the doubt that he didn't know it was fake, although if you're handling precious metals on a regular basis, just touching it is a dead giveaway that it's a counterfeit.
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