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Pillar of the Community
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Edited by CoinCents
08/10/2016 8:43 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Normal weight 2.27 G. It's within range.
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Pillar of the Community
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I could be something. I dont know much about this stuff. I'd wait for Coop or Mike to chime in
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Pillar of the Community
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Dime clad layers weigh .4g so if it was missing both layers it would weigh 1.47g
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Pillar of the Community
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Thanks, I tried to find the weight of the non clad dime, but had no luck. I will save the info in my reference file now. Thanks for posting it.
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Pillar of the Community
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Your welcome-the strike would also be weaker than normal due to the reduced size of the planchet
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Pillar of the Community
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Great to know, will add that info to my file as well. I am sure not many of these would be around but next time I can check my files first.
So that (weak strike) would apply to other coins as well?
What I previously wrote made no sense once I thought about it because LC's don't have a clad layer. But, Quarters and Nickels do - am I correct there?
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08/11/2016 12:15 am
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Yes it would be the same for other denominations but as far as a diagnostic on circulated coins I can see that being tricky-I don't own any and have only seen a handful of pictures myself...weight is always the best and first thing to check
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08/11/2016 12:16 am
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The weight is normal so it cannot possibly be missing a clad layer. However, clad coins typically darken when exposed to soil for a significant amount of time.
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Probably an outdoor find.  If it were copper, there would be no glint of silver color showing on the coin:  The first two images are nickels struck on copper cent planchets. Note how dark the color is on those two upper images. I'm not seeing that on your coin. |
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