Hear Me Out, I've Spotted The Classic White Edge Silver Dime... From 1966?

Another article states the '64 silver roosevelts were struck through April of 1966

Ive looked everywhere for my scale and I cant find it, so I'm going to head over to my local coin shop tomorrow to see if they can weigh it for me, sorry to keep everyone on edge!


Bluesolo: yeah I totally agree, I had to get one of the early generation z's if I was going to get one at all, I hate that t-top, and the dimensions are all off

Cool,definitely keep us posted adam that'll be sweet if it's a silver planchet!

Try the tissue test to see if the color proves true with a silver coin, this coin and a circulated clad dime to see if that helps. The only cost is a single layer tissue:



The OP's coin looks like it was dipped in acid, which would lighten the coin.

All of the details look a little 'mushy' to me.
Thick silver plating could bring it up to near the correct weight for a silver dime.

Here it is compared to a (more worn) regular silver dime, the last picture is at an angle, and it shows that it's probably not natural luster.

I've checked between the reeding, but its difficult to tell to be honest with you, it looks no darker than the real silver dime I have with me, some parts look perfectly white, other look like they might have some dark spots

Right now I'm 95% sure its been plated, but the weight test will tell us for sure. At the very lease it's been polished, which doesn't look good for its chances

Again sorry about the photos, the camera and lighting is about as far from ideal as you can get

I agree with you coop, it does look like a clad coin, at least in the photos. in hand it looks like it could be either depending on which way the light hits it, again when I first saw it on the roll end it hit me as most likely silver before even seeing the date. I'm still leaning towards plated. Looking at it now I think I see breaks in the plating on the high points.

Im excited to head down to the coin shop to put a nail in the coffin, ill be happy to have found this either way though

I was too impatient to wait till tomorrow so I did the scratch test...

does silver normally look this brown?

oh well, ive already hit the error lottery once, it wouldnt be fair for me to hit it again. I think ill still head out to the store tomorrow to get the weight just as a learning experience

also I accidentally posted this in the thread you linked blue, my bad!

Thanks for all of your help guys, sorry to cause such a stir over nothing