I was walking through town yesterday and saw a double sovereign in the window of a pawn shop. I went in and asked to look at it. It is a beautiful coin, but I noticed a small mark on the reverse of the coin. I pointed this out and the attendant said that they do that on all their coins to check it's real gold. I can see the reasoning and I'm sure there are better ways to do this, but in my view it destroyed the coin. Is this common place and would you expect to see this often?
I know it's a bit of a noob question above, but would like to see a few views from long-term stackers to see whether this was normal. It would help me when looking for good investments. Thanks
Not these days , they just devalued any numi value it had With XRF machines there is no need to damage coins these days
Thanks spanner monkey - that's what I thought. I know they have to be sure, but surely there are better ways to test (as you stated). This totally ruined the coin for me and just put me off straight away. Oh well.
