State-Sponsored Silver Counterfeit Flooding
State-sponsored counterfeit silver operations are flooding markets with fake coins designed to collapse trust in precious metals during crisis moments
Too little corroboration in the last 3 days to call a trend (3 articles). Watching for it to gain traction.
Mainstream financial press is carrying this — attention has broadened beyond specialist outlets.
"Comex gold and silver edge lower amid Middle East tensions, firm US dollar"
"State-sponsored factories in Southeast Asia are churning out convincing fakes, flooding the market with 'junk silver' that looks, feels and weighs authentic but is made of base metals."
"While counterfeiters can fool a scale or a ping test on a silver round, they cannot cost-effectively replicate the precise, multi-layered structure of a Goldback."