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@jo, that seems little low as the tolerance was +/- 0.09 g I believe. Can you please post overall pics of both sides of this coin? Perhaps it is quite worn?
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#1 — 1964 Copper-Nickel Clad Roosevelt dimeThis transitional error coin was struck when the United States Mint was moving from the production of 90% silver Roosevelt dimes to making the ten-cent coin from copper-nickel clad. The 1964 clad Roosevelt dime is a rare coin with only a handful of specimens, and these are worth four figures or more. How do you tell a 1964 clad dime from a regular 90% silver 1964 dime? Weigh it! A 1964 clad dime weighs 2.27 grams (more or less). |
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This is a comparison to a 1964 D, both their edges are white and no sign of clad.   |
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Pillar of the Community
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Definitely a little light. Can you post a picture of the edge?
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This is the side of the coin. I also included other photo with comparison to other dimes.   |
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Pillar of the Community
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It was probably struck on a slightly underweight planchet. No sign of it being clad.
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You maybe right but the color of the coin is not silvery even the edge is not shiny like the silver one. is there another way to check or test the composition of metal aside from the weight?
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there is a way, but it will damage a small section of the coin. There are silver test kits you can get that people use to determining silver for jewelry. in essence a scratch test. I don't know any coin collector who would do it on their own coin because if by lotto luck it is a clad, you just lowered the value of the coin... I don't see any sign of it being clad. coin weight can drop almost 30% in circulation. I'd say thats the reason, or an underweight planchet.
best I can offer.
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Silver can tone dark like that, it just depends on the environment it has been in.
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