Avoid These Fake Silver Bars! We show you how! 

1:19 That bit about the packaging makes a lot of sense. A legitimate company wouldn't pack like that out of fear of the bars moving around and scratching each other.

The sound of silver makes my heart sing...Those mcm bars sounded like plain clanking...

I'm lucky, I live in Perth, Australia, home of the Perth Mint - I buy from them direct in store so no possibility of fake metal

Just an FYI for one and all. All banks and banking institutions used to have marble slabs at every teller's window. The reason for this is because real silver will "ring" when dropped onto a hard surface and marble magnifies that "ring". Not done much anymore because none of our coins are silver, but when we did have silver coins, this was a down and dirty quick check. Gold used in coins was nearly pure 24 carat, and the test for that was to see if it can take a mark easily. That's why the old movies have the pioneer biting the coin before accepting it. If it was soft enough to take a tooth mark, it was real gold.

Silver sounds different. That’s how I find silver quarters in my change.

Thanks for helping the community how to tell good silver from bad. Thanks for sharing!!!

I just had a fake gold bar pass through the lab. Def open the packaging and test the piece if there is any doubt whatsoever. Great vid!

The nice thing about gold and silver is they have a distinct specific gravity, so it's almost impossible to create the perfect weight while maintaining the correct dimensions for a 1 ozt. bar. Another way to tell is to use a pair of calipers to measure the bar. I live really close to a precious metals mint, so I buy all my bar and coin from them. Never a fake. Great video.

Did anyone also notice that the fake bar weight said " 1ounce" but the real one said " one Troy ounce" I came across this fact over 35 years ago! Also I made sure that every time I purchased silver I always left the store with it in my possession. The store owner also offered to store my silver in his vault, I declined. Some weeks later I returned to purchase more and found the store closed with several other people who had stored their silver that was obviously gone! Some had prepaid for their order and also lost it all. The store owner cleaned out the vault and disappeared only to be caught a couple months later claiming to be broke! PURCHASING BULLION WILL ALWAYS BE A GOOD IDEA BUT DO IT WITH EYES WIDE OPEN!!

I've never seen silver packed like this! They usually come packed in one bag like this, but each silver bar has its own compartment! The colouration and blemishes on those 'fake bars' also would ring alarm bells with most people....

Thank you for this video! It does help many to be careful and KNOW your sources when buying precious metals!

They don't sound like silver. Silver makes a distinct sound.

You are loving person..cause sharing is caring..keep it up!!

I'm surprised you didn't do the sound test. Drop both bars on a marble counter. Tell the difference blindfolded. Differences are about as clear as tapping a spoon against a crystal goblet and a tupperware cup. There is a reason silver bells, the real ones, have a unique ring.

Great demonstration! I always wondered about how those acid test work! Thanks for posting it!👍

Thanks for the demonstration.. I'm 74 and yes still learning.. wow so easy to ripted off.

Thank you for teaching me something very important to know about silver thank you

I bought five 1 ounce bars from fleabay. All five were copper with plate on. Luckily the guy took them back for a refund for me. His question ‘ how did you know’ made me very suspicious, after him pleading that he didn’t know they were fake.

Great video for the beginner. Thank you for doing the acid test for silver. I understand it now.

Thank you very much for educating us. We truly appreciate the information. Can’t imagine how many people have been ripped off.

Extremely helpful and thank you very very much, Cory I think that those phony Bars were first vacuum sealed and lost their seal

"Are you telling me that I'll be able to dodge silver bars?" "No, I'm telling you that when the time comes, you won't have to."

THANK YOU! Wow, this video is very helpful!

Very interesting and informative. Thank you guys for sharing!

Another simple test is to put an ice cube on the silver. If it instantly melts it’s likely to have silver in it as silver is the best thermally conducting metal.

The sound is wrong when they bump each other.

This video was PACKED full of great educational tips. Very nice. Thanks to the makers

SUPERB VIDEO! HUGE THANKS FOR POSTING THIS VID.

The packaging was a vacuum bag like those used in the Food Saver.

I used this exact same scale on a pot farm and loved its accuracy!

Good Video man, Very Informative!

I learned something today! Thanks!

How did you get 70 thumbs down? Maybe the guys selling the bad bars?

Can you be more specific about the acid used and the steel metal plate (type and addition alloys ) used for testing :) Thank you !

Thank you for sharing this sir! Great info

Awesome video! Thank you so much for the information

Thank you for this video! I'm a newbie and bought a couple of bars off eBay and one of them looked odd, it also sounded odd when I pinged against the other pure bars so I scratched tested it and after one scratch it was bright copper underneath! Ugh, learning curve but I got my money back. Thank you again, I wouldn't have known how to check for fake bars!!

I have an excellent magnet tester I built out of old hard drive. I have the rare earth mags bolted together (facing each other) and you drop your coin / bar between them. The coin or bar will fall through slowly and you can’t actually feel the weight of your silver piece pull on the magnets as it falls through. This little contraption is freakin great!

Great knowledge, thanks man... 😀

Thanks for the video its very informative, I subbed

That's a food savers bag. Those vacuum pack machines for food. I bet they did have a vacuum but lost it in elevation changes.

Thanks for this video! Could you please test that fake bar with the rare-earth magnet test?

Thank you! Very helpful!

Informative video, thanks. Its amazing how much can be determined with out the need for super high tech electronic tests. Anyone wanting to buy or sell silver would be wise to familiarize themselves with these tests and perhaps buy a scratch-test kit to eave on hand for future transactions.

that package is a food vacuum seal packaging.... I use it for the fish I smoke...

I've seen these silver bars come in my store, as well as counterfeit 1 ounce gold Pamp bars.... scary stuff...

Thanks for the lesson ! Getting into stacking silver....

Cool, not only did i watch an informative video on telling fake from real silver just as i am becoming interesting in collecting silver but its also from a store in my area! thank you RU-vid algorithm gods!

I use specific gravity to test. No chemicals and no damage to the coins or bars. Just a little water.

Wow and I almost planned on buying 5 silver coins from MCM. I thought the prices were nice but I had a bad gut feeling about this. Glad I never looked back.

Great video. Thank You! New sub.

Great information...Thank you!

Robert kiyosaki actually enlightened me on investing into gold and silver. This video definitely made a difference. I just want to know where i can purchase the test acid?

I was about to buy SilverTowne bar from MCM then I come on youtube and see all these fake SilverTowne bars and now this video haha..

Thanks for the video!

I have some old bars that were tarnishing so I vacuum packed them like the one shown. LOL. I like that scratch test learned something new.

Hard to avoid them after you've bought them

So is there any indication where these things come from? My first guess would be China.

thank you for showing the tests ~

thank you so much for this video. recently came into some silver ounces and now i can see if they are real!

You can tell they're not silver by the way they sound. Of course I have an advantage in that respect as I am old enough and used silver dimes, quarters, halves and dollars when I was young back in the 50's and 60's. If you ever get a chance to play with a handful of silver dollars (make sure they're not collectible so you don't ruin their value) you will get a good idea of the sound they make as they hit each other. The sound is distinctly different, as most metals are from each other.

I never buy bars off ebay or any other silver except one time I got silver nickels exactly at spot. Its almost always over priced. Basically the people on ebay are buying bags of $100 face value dimes, quarters, Bars, etc from JM Bullion or SD Bullion and splitting them into 50 dime rolls or lots and getting people to pay stupid prices for them. Friends should band together and buy these bags and bars straight from the dealers and save 10-20%

I appreciate you for sharing this information. First time on your channel very interesting video see you around thanks

Great info, Thank you

Thays why you dont order precious metals off ebay goto the real companys

I've been looking into buying "junk silver and gold"

Very informative. Thank you

New Sub thanks for the info👍

It looks like a FoodSaver bag.

Beware of a site named "WISH", Chinese, selling ASEs for half price. Gotta be a scam.

thank you so much for showing this video

Very helpful, thank you sir

China for ya!

what kind of stone are you scatching bar on

Great video, definitely got to be careful

Lots of great info, including in the comments. Thanks, now time to go buy low prices silver!

Just so your viewers will have a point of reference - .1 gram is about a half thimble of common lint.

The camera fade every 5 sec is making me sick

Thanks for posting this video, buyer beware!

this is nice to know sir thank you so much :)

Looks like a food saver packaging lol.

How can we get one of those scratching plates?

i havent come across any fake silver yet but i usually buy from reputable sellers, but it's still interesting to know how to tell the difference :)

amazing video, thank you

So I am guessing you purchased the fake silver bars from customer. Did they mention where they purchase them? I buy from MCM off eBay and always weight my stuff when it comes in.

The good news is that the fake silver bar is only slightly less valuable than a real silver bar these.days.

Thanks for the heads up ...

Thx 4 sharing !!

All of my silver I bought sticks to a magnet. Is that bad? :)

get your money back from the seller..

Thanks for the information

Good video, thanks!

JUST BUY AT NORMAL LICENSED SHOPS AND ALWAYS CURRENT YEAR RELEASE AND NO PROBLEMS.

The sound of them hitting together is way off.

Great information thanks

Thank you,very good video

MCM??? Mighty Car Mods ???

I thought an ounce was 28 grams

Cool video very informative on that I'm a silver guy I like silver more than I like gold and I've always just done the acid test I don't have any silver bars yet but that's going to be one thing I'm going to be looking for all the best John new to your Channel