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Valued Member
United States
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I WANT TO FINISH OFF MY Ike dollar SET BUT WHAT IS COSIDERED A TRUELY COMPLETE SET? IN THE 2008 REB BOOK IT LIST A 1976 SILVER CLAD VARIETY 2 BUT I CANNOT FIND INFO ON THIS COIN ANYWHERE, WHATS SO SPECIAL ABOUT THIS ONE OR DOES IT EVEN EXIST IN MASS QUANTITIES? do YOU THINK THE REST OF THE Red Book LIST IS WHAT WOULD BE CONSIDERED A COMPLETE SET? PLEASE HELP ME SO I KNOW WHAT I AM MISSING IN MY SET, ALSO WHAT IS THE EIASET WAY TO TELL A 40% SILVER FROM A COPPER CLAD COIN, IS IT JUST THE COLOR DIFFRENCE? |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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This should be in the regular US Coin forum. Also you should turn the caps lock off and type in normal case. Your typing is hard to read and looks like shouting. You are the one who determines what a complete set is for you. If one of each date is enough, fine. If you need every different metal change and variety, fine...but it is YOU who makes that decision, not some book. The silver and clad are different in color, weight, and sound. The silver ones are whiter in color, have a lower pitch ring when they settle, and your Red Book has their proper weights. |
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Pillar of the Community
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Robert, my complete set is 32 coins. In the 76 series they made Copper clad for P, D, and S mints in both type 1 & 2. Also made 40% silver in uncirculated and proof. If they made a silver clad in 76 I would consider this an error or varity not needed for a complete set.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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IMO..a complete set is one of each year and mint mark. At this point in my collecting I cant get side tracked with varieties and errors.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Also made 40% silver in uncirculated and proof. If they made a silver clad in 76 I would consider this an error or varity not needed for a complete set.
I am confused as to what you are trying to say. The 40% silver Ikes are silver clad, not an alloy like all of the 90% silver coinage. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I may be wrong, but I believe the 40%s are a composition of 60% copper and 40% silver. Not a copper core and two silver layers.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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From what I read it states that there is no 1976 type 2 silver clad ike only type one.
Biokemist is correct about the silver clad ikes. The outer layers are 80% silver and 20% copper bonded to an inner layer of 20.9% silver and 79.1% copper and weighs 24.59 grams. The copper-nickel clad has outer layers of 75% copper and 25% nickel bonded to an inner layer of pure copper and weighs 22.68 grams. The silver clads were only struck at the San Fran mint from 1971 to 1974 and in 1976.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Finally found some decent info on the silver clads. Your right. Thanks guys.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I have two 1976 SCLAD Type II Ikes....they are in proof only.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Aha...i spoke prematurely...theyre not silver clad, tho.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Sort of like coppercoins said. A complete set is what you think is complete. Although that too depends on if you put those in an album. Then a complete set becomes what an Album manufacturer wants you to think a completed set should look like. Example is I have a Liberty Head Nickel Album with a slot for the 1913. I don't think I'll find one soon so is this an incompleted set? I know people that collect only one coin from each mint for a denomination. They say their sets are complete. Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.
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