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In recent years, the production of fake silver and gold bullion products has been on the rise and the following post will show you how to detect such products and avoid the major financial loss that would occur in doing so.
The above introductory comments are edited excerpts from an infographic by Silver.com originally entitled How To Test For Fake Gold & Silver.
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