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Pillar of the Community
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Hi All,
I have seen the term for silver coins "Silver Clad". What exactly does this mean.?
Thank You
John
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Pillar of the Community
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There is Silver, Coin Silver, Silver Clad, and Clad Silver coins are .999 pure silver. Coin Silver( Peace dollars, Morgans, pre '64 coinage) is 90% silver. Silver Clad is usually a copper or copper nickel core, with a thin silver layer on top. Usually a negligent amount of silver. Clad coins are a copper core, with a copper nickel (cupro-nickel) outer layer. All clad proofs and circulating coinage is made this way. |
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United States
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Anything with the word clad in it basically means it is not pure and is usually cheap metal with a thin coating of silver.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Would 40% silver coinage ( e.g., 1667-79 Kennedy half dollars) be considered "silver clad", or are we basically talking about silver plated here? |
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United States
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Clad can mean common modern alloy coins (present-day dimes, quarters, halves, pennies) or silver-plated knockoffs. But -- not 40% junk silver.
40% junk is legit. Low-end legit, but not "clad" or "100 mills."
"Silver clad" is the same as "100 mills" and it refers specifically to the silver plated products, which are mostly forgeries/counterfeits/copies, etc.
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05/29/2013 12:10 pm
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not 40% junk silver. 40% junk is legit. Low-end legit, but not "clad" or "100 mills." I think there may be some disagreement about that. Not that Wikipedia is the source of all truth and light, but their article on Eisenhower dollars distinguishes between "circulation strikes" and "silver clad." Silver clad is defined in this case as "Outer layers of 80% silver with a center of 20.9% silver. Aggregate 60% copper, 40% silver". I suppose "clad" just means "having an outer layer" without any firm definition of how thick that layer must be. It could be atoms thick (such as with silver plated items), but it could also be significantly thicker such as with 40% silver coins. |
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Wiki may just be using the term silver clad literally for the ikes since it literally is silver and clad
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"Silver clad" is the same as "100 mills" and it refers specifically to the silver plated products, which are mostly forgeries/counterfeits/copies, etc. According to whose definition? http://www.numismedia.com/glossary.htmNumismedia[/a] defines "silver-clad" as "A coin whose overall metal makeup is 40% silver and 60% copper. Kennedy half dollars (struck from 1965 until 1970) are silver-clad halves." I agree that the term is probably misused frequently for silver plated coins to fool people into thinking they have more silver, but, but I don't think you can just say that "silver clad" is the same as "100 mills" in all cases. |
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most of the time they use real coins while selling fakes
fakes look really cheap,so don't worry for now
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"Clad" means to be sandwiched. A knight can be "clad" in shining armor. 40% silver kennedy's are clad because they have one alloy sandwiching another. Content:Cladding: 80% Silver 20% Copper, Core: 79% Copper 21% Silver Basically clad means there is something cheaper in the middle. 40%ers are good cheap junk silver. Beware of anything else though. I have seen people burned by buying one-oz-looking rounds that were really just clad with .999 silver. Personally, I won't take anything cheap like that. The guy tried to sell me the clad round for $5. Here is what it looks like: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fro...Sold=1&rt=ncI almost bough it because it looked nice, but decided I wouldn't sully my collection/stack with something plated, or "clad" |
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Posted 05/29/2013 09:22 am
