I Bought A Coin From E-Bay...Is It Real? The Follow Up Post! Plus More Shiny!

Golden greetings and silver salutations! Over a week ago, I posted about the 2017 Falkland Islands "Brittania Rules the Waves" Variation coin I bought from E-Bay. You can see that post here.

I was worried that my variation coin may not be real, as it was packaged in a different manner as the "corrected" version. I decided to go to my local shop to chat with them about it. First off, one of the guys said "Hello, Mike". That was the first time that has ever happened. I don't feel I go there nearly enough for them to know my name. You do sign your receipt when you check out, so they have seen my name, I was just shocked they remembered me. So kudos on that.

Anyways, I struck up a chat with a few of the gentleman there. I asked them, since they buy far more metal than I, how they test their coinage. They stated they use one of these:

They brought it to the counter and offered to test it for me, which I happily agreed to. I did not want to start taking photos while the guy was testing it, so I found a very similar tester online. The image source is here.

It tested as .999! Success! He tested one of my "corrected" coins, and it tested at .999 as well. Yay! The employees then told me a story about a guy who came in asking similar questions to mine. He had brought some "gold" in that he bought on E-Bay (notice the use of quotes). This individual's bars failed the test miserably.

Before I parted, you know I needed to do something to return the favor. What better way then to buy a little bit of shiny? I decided to pick up a couple of rounds, here is the first. It was minted by South East Refining Inc.

That is some cool looking shiny. I cannot find out much about it, but I do see similar coins on E-Bay.

The other round has "Silver Trade Unit" on the reverse. I looked online and found an old forum where people talked about these "Silver Trade Unit" rounds as being minted by multiple different companies. It is hard to say who minted this, but here it is:

I hoped you enjoyed my tale today. Until next time, keep stacking and supporting #SteemSilverGold, #SteemUSA, and #TheAlliance!

TL:DR - In the words of Kurt Angle when he was in TNA Wrestling, "It's real! It's damn real!". You may think I have the quote wrong, but he had to change the "It's true..." line when he left the WWE. You are a real wrestling nerd if you know this already!