Blank Dime - Clad Or Silver?

Do not cut it! That is an incredibly irresponsible thing to be suggested as it would damage the coin(planchet) and kill the value. Any coin dealer that would do that does not need to be in the business of selling coins either. Simply weighing as has been suggested is by far the easiest(and most nondestructive) way to tell whether it is silver or Cu-Ni clad.

The Cu-Ni planchets are not worth much but the silver planchets are quite a bit rarer. Fred Weinberg sells a Type1&2 clad planchet set for $5 but the silver Type2(with rim) planchet is $35 so that gives you an idea of the value difference.

I am not about to do anything invasive, BioK -- don't panic.

I thought about weighing it, but I don't know what each should weigh. Silver more than a cu-ni clad one, I presume. I'll try that tonight when I get home. I'm banking on silver since I see no copper on the edge, but I wasn't sure if that was the sort of thing that magically appears with reeding.

Speaking of weights, where can I find a handy list of U.S. coin weights?

Thanks, everybody, for your input.

Jan

Thanks, BioK.

OK -- it's clad. With 10x power, I can see copper on the edge, even without reeding, and it weighs less than a silver dime. However, it weighs more than a clad dime. Here's what I got:

blank - 2.3 g (or 34 gn, 1.5 dwt)
clad - 2.2 g (or 32 gn, 1.4 dwt)
silver - 2.5 g (or 36 gn, 1.6 dwt)

Would striking take off .1 gram?

I don't know about anybody else, but I think this kind of thing is fascinating. Maybe that's why people study coins, huh?

Jan