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1971 Kennedy half dollar appears silver with no sandwiching on the rim Weighs 11g thanks for the input    |
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Most likely plated, looks like they did a good job too. Would need to have a scale with decimals to really determine further.
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Looks plated, no way to tell just looking at the surface though. Scratch in between the reeding and see if you can see copper.
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It's a gram and a half light to be pure silver, but closer to the earlier clad silver examples which ended a year earlier at 11.5g. All the same, that one should show cladding, and there would have been no pure silver planchets in Denver for years past by 1971. What sort of resolution does your scale weigh to? You would need 0.01g resolution to get what would be considered an accurate weight.
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The 1971 struck on a silver-clad planchet is a known error (in the Red Book), & quite a valuable one. The edge might or might not have a visible dark-gray stripe, in my experience. It's safer to assume that is not what you have, until proven otherwise. |
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My scale shows 11.2 grams/7.2 dwt
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Yep, cupro-nickel clad (to distinguish it from silver-clad).
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Not silver.
Definition: A clad coin is one that has multiple layers of metal in it; most current U.S. clad coins consist of an inner core of copper, with outer layers of a silver-colored nickel-copper alloy. Examples of this type of clad coin are the U.S. Dime, Quarter, and Half Dollar.
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04/29/2015 10:41 pm
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A clad coin can contain silver. Our 40% silver half-dollars of 1965-1970, the Bicentennial "silver" quarters, halves and dollar in the three-piece sets, and the "Silver Ikes" (referred to as Brown and Blue Ikes based on the color of the packaging) are all struck in silver-clad.
To be more specific, you do not have a silver-clad, you have a cupro-nickel clad.
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04/30/2015 12:03 am
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Lol thanks for the info guys, ill keep searchin
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That's the spirit!  |
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