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Subject VIDEO - BEWARE: FAKE Sunshine Mint Silver Bars & 2011 Canadian Maples

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I realize this is old by now, but it still showed up quite high on the list when I did a google search for sunshine mint and after seeing some of the comments I felt like maybe I should comment as well.

The guy who does the videos has his heart in the right place but his method is obviously lacking. What really prompted me to post were all the comments saying that this was not fake.

There are definitely fake sunshine mint 1oz bars circulating. I have seen one and it's quite easy to tell the difference, IF you know what the real ones look like.

A much more helpful video would have been to simply show close-ups of the real and fakes side by side, but I have not seen anything like that yet.

For the sunshine mint 1oz bars: These are actually quite good. The way to tell the difference is that the fakes have squarer corners. The real ones are slightly more rounded. The easiest way to tell is the little sunshine icon on the back side in the upper left corner. On the real bar the sun in the top left almost touches the edge, on the fake you can see the rays extending.

The Canadian maple fake I have not seen in person (probably because that one is terrible and incredibly easy to spot) I have seen a close up of one though and anyone who has ever seen a real maple would never be fooled by this one. When you look at the leaf on a real maple you will see incredibly intricate, detailed texture of the leaf. On the fake that I saw the close-up photo of, the leaf is simply flat and shiny with only the veins of the leaf drawn in, no texture at all. Even some of the veins are the wrong length or in the wrong spot. Clearly fake.

I really wish the guy that made these videos would have at least taken a couple close ups as most people are not going to be able to start grinding off the edge of a coin they are thinking of buying. Instead, I wish he would have put together a much more helpful video showing the easy, non-destructive, ways to identify fake silver.
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