Super-simple and used daily by bankers, jewellers, pawnbrokers and gold traders when counterfeiting & coin-clipping was a real problem. ⭐ Genuine Victorian Sovereign Coin Tester – NOT a bulk scale! This is a classic mid-to-late 19th-century brass “Sovereign Balance” or rocker scale, specifically made to instantly detect counterfeit, clipped, or lightweight gold sovereigns (and half-sovereigns).
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