Yeah!!
There's the 5 ozt .999 fine silver from Sunshine Mint on the left, and a 5g .999 fine gold from Credit Suisse. Those scratches you see on the silver actually belongs to its plastic cover. And my camera is v.lousy, so I can't take sharp pictures. Feels good to finally own them! Especially when I hold the heavy silver in my hand :)
You can get a pocket weighing scale to weigh your bullions (one way to test for authenticity). It shows about 5 grams in the above picture (0.4g from the plastic cover and the air inside it -_- ). Fake ones will normally be overweight or underweight. Another more advanced method is to get a jeweler's loupe and examine your bullions under magnification. It took me a 2 hours to find the loupe in Chinatown. It doesn't help that most chinese sellers there do not understand English, and it doesn't help that my Mandarin is at the kindergarten level.
Anyway, wish all collectors out there good health and wealth!
Jin
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