When it comes to the word "color", many people will feel very illusory, and perhaps everyone's understanding of this word will be different, but why can knowledgeable people judge the true and false from the color at a glance? That is, they have achieved standard unity of the authenticity of the silver elemental colors of various states. The standard of authenticity and falsity is unified, which is also the fundamental reason for the current order of the numismatic market.
The so-called color, is a silver coin to give us the first feeling, to see whether the overall performance of the silver dollar is normal, whether the color is in line with the natural oxidation state of the real silver dollar, this kind of natural oxidation after a hundred years of natural oxidation performance we call the color. Looking at the color is the first step for a numismatic connoisseur to identify silver dollars, and it is also a very important step, just like the experienced Chinese medicine wangqi, experienced experts can directly judge the authenticity of the coin by looking at the color, and the mid-range imitation basically cannot pass the pass of looking at the color. And looking at the color is not only a necessary step in the identification of silver dollars, other types of porcelain, bronze, ancient jade, calligraphy and painting and other antiques are also the same, the same as paying attention to the overall feeling of the first glance, through the performance of the color can exclude a lot of imitations.
The gas color is composed of three elements of silver, pulp and rust color, and the specific performance of these three elements will be analyzed by you one by one in the future. Generally speaking, the real silver dollar looks silver cotton white introverted at first glance, the pulp is calm and mature, the silver rust is sent out from the inside out, and it looks very strong when eaten into the coin surface. Although the performance of these three kinds of gas color is continuously improved with the continuous improvement of counterfeit currency old technology, some high imitation coins are also very good to see the color, but there are still many flaws in a closer look, which requires a comprehensive judgment combined with other characteristics and details, which is also the limitation of looking at the color.
It is precisely because looking at the color is a macro observation of the silver dollar, which is very effective for some low-end imitations, just by looking at the color can distinguish the true and false, but it is very effective for the low-end imitations, so it has also become a place criticized by many people. Many people take silver dollars to find connoisseurs to see silver dollars, because things are fake at a glance, they will often be false as soon as they are taken out, these people will inevitably think that connoisseurs are perfunctory, and they do not see clearly to say that they are fake, and often misunderstand. In their hearts, they feel that they are holding gloves, holding various tools to monitor, and then telling them that this is a valuable "big treasure", they will feel that the other party has not deceived them. The reason for this is also because these people do not know anything about looking at the color, because in the silver dollar and even many antique identifications, looking at the color can really break the authenticity of most imitations at a glance.
Of course, just because looking at the color is the first step in judging silver coins, it also has certain limitations, because the current high imitation coin color has been done very well, and the feeling of seeing it at first glance will be very good. For high imitation coins that do a good job in color, it is still necessary to look at the color, and then comprehensively judge the authenticity of a coin by looking at the characteristics of technology, rust color, edge teeth and so on.
Below I use the picture to illustrate the level of judging the true and false by looking at the color of the gas, so that we know what kind of look at the color of the gas directly judges the true and false, what kind of color to see the color to use a magnifying glass, what kind of is a false at a glance, and what kind of is a big opening door (a glance at the truth).
1, look at the color of a fake low-end imitation:
The silver coins listed above belong to a fake low imitation with a very poor color, generally counterfeit in the 1980s and 1990s and before, and this counterfeit currency is 18,000 miles away from the real thing, whether it is silver, pulp, rust or craftsmanship. Generally are the use of copper, iron, lead, alloy materials, can not show the color of real silver, the process is also very rough, as long as you understand the silver coins, have seen the real silver coins of the little white can almost see the color of the true and false, belongs to the easiest to distinguish the counterfeit currency.
2, the color has a certain deceptive mid-range imitation:
The above list of several silver coins have a better color, on the whole, it is a mid-range imitation, basically the product of some technological innovations after the eighties and nineties, which has a lot of real silver counterfeit coins, but the old technology is still relatively primitive, the traces of chemical aging are more obvious, and it also belongs to the scope of the industry's one-eyed fake, although there is a certain degree of deception, but people with average eyesight can also see that the color is not good. This grade of imitations basically use mold die casting, the process on a grade, so it looks much more standardized, but silver is often more dazzling, can not kill the fire, poor color, lethality is not high.
3. High-end and fine imitation coins with high deceptive color:
The above list is the counterfeiting technology in recent years after the substantial improvement of counterfeiting technology, the market found a variety of states of high imitation coins and fine imitation coins, these coins in the color has been a lot of deception, not only pure silver production, the process has been no less than the real product or even some aspects have been superior to the real product, and whether it is the original light state or the state of life pit and inheritance, the color has been very close to the real thing, so such imitations from the picture is easy to let the teacher Fu eye, some imitations even if they get started will cause controversy, Even if you do a good job, you can deceive the rating companies that are strict to perverted, and I have to say that the current high imitation coin is a poison in the silver dollar market, but no matter how well it is done, there will be flaws, and how to see the flaws of these high imitation coins, I will give you an analysis one by one in the back.
4. The color status of the real coin with the big door:
The above is the various color states of the silver coin genuine, which is undoubtedly the state of the big door, that is to say, if we see the color of the above silver dollar at a glance, then it can be affirmed that it is true, and this color is the natural oxidation state that can be formed for hundreds of years. At present, it is difficult to imitate such a large open door high imitation coin, more or less will have some deviation, even if some high imitation coins from the picture looks very close to or even indistinguishable, but looking at the physical object will be unnatural, so we do not have to scare ourselves, no matter how strong the high imitation will also have flaws, will not reach the point of stupidity, because so far, there is no high imitation coin can pass the master layer in the market.
The above is a variety of imitations and real products of the color description, from the above explanation, I think you should have a figurative concept of the color of the color, probably can understand why many connoisseurs can be through the color of silver coins at a glance to determine the true and false. However, for the imitation of excellent or can not only use the gas color to judge the true and false, and this time you need to get started to look carefully, first look at the silver, and then look at the pulp rust color, and then observe whether the process characteristics meet the production conditions and process of the coinage at that time, use a magnifying glass to observe the details, especially the edge teeth, and synthesize the characteristics of all aspects, and then you can get a more objective result.