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Pillar of the Community
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Do not shine it to make it pass the tissue test! Cleaning or shining a coin is a big mistake that can severally affect it's value! |
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Rest in Peace
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Or take it to local coin shop for weight. I hope it's 90%.
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Bedrock of the Community
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The edges of the 40% silver ones do not show copper. tissue test would only tell if it is a 40% one. If toned, then that test wouldn't work.   74 |
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Pillar of the Community
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You could use a popsicle stick as a balance scale. Use a known 90% Silver half on the other side.
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Valued Member
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CWB. Thats some McGuyver testing skills right there
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Pillar of the Community
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I have seen that very thing, hot glued together to test 1982 cents and for that dream 83 cent , to see which ones are copper and which zincoln.
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 Yes it works very well. and doesn't cost anything. |
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Pillar of the Community
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I'm surprised nobody mentioned to check the edge to see if it is clad or not.
90%silver shows no sign of a clad strike.
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Pillar of the Community
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I'm surprised nobody mentioned to check the edge to see if it is clad or not.
90%silver shows no sign of a clad strike. That would usually work, but halves struck from 1965-1970 were 40% silver and don't show copper on the edge |
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Pillar of the Community
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The edges of the 40% silver ones do not show copper. Actually Coop did mention why that wouldn't work. |
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Pillar of the Community
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Agreed, but you can still see the clad seperation if looking close enough...
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Pillar of the Community
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The tissue test is only good to distinguish silver from cupro-nickel. It is not even close to being definitive for distinguishing silver-clad (with an 80% silver outer layer) from 90% solid silver. So forget that test for this coin. |
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Wow! Thank you everyone for the feedback and advice! Nothing but a great experience in dealing with everyone here! I will try some different techniques and get to a scale to weigh grams and get back to everyone. I did the tissue test and it matches my silver coins. Just need to figure how much, etc... Thanks again for your help! |
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let us now or we might read about it on the cover of Coin World or some other publication |
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