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 Posted 12/23/2009  3:22 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add nancyk to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Please tell me what you consider 40% silver coins? I know 1965-1969 (and 1970 mint set) Kennedy halves. What other dates qualify?

What about the War Nickels 1942-1945? Are these considered 40%.

I have had diffent people tell me their version of clad, but am looking for the consensus.

Thanks for your help.
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 Posted 12/23/2009  3:29 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add nohope587 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I am sure some one will correct me but I believe War Nickels were 35% silver
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 Posted 12/23/2009  3:37 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add The Silver Machine to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
haha I wont correct you I'll just go a lil further :). The war nickles are 35% silver, 56% copper, 9% manganese and I'm not sure if they are clad or that alloy throughout.

clad simply means one metal over another, so 40% silvers are clad because its 80% sliver and 20% copper on the outside and I forgot the inside alloy % of copper vs silver. but I think its like 30% silver and 70% copper. some please remind me :)

But around here if someone says clad they are usually referring to the copper nickel clad coins.
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12/23/2009 3:39 pm
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The silver Bicentennial coins (dollar, half and quarter) are 40% as well as all the silver Ikes.


Cladding 80% Silver 20% Copper, Core 79% Copper 21% Silver
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 Posted 12/24/2009  09:39 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add nancyk to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
And does anybody know which Ikes are silver clad? (dates)

Is there anything else besides Kennedys, War Nickels (35), Ikes that have 40% silver?

Wasn't there a modern Kennedy that was silver-clad besides the bicentennials?
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Ikes that come as 40% silver
All 71-S
All 72-S
all 73-S Uncs
The 73-S proofs in the brown box (the 73-S ikes that came in the proof SETS are CuNi clad.)
All 74-S uncs
The 74-S Proofs in the Brown box.
All 76-S uncs
The 76-S proofs in the three coin bicentennial proof set. (All ikes in the regular six piece proof sets are CuNi clad.) Also all of the 40% S-Mint Ikes are type I (The coppernickel clad proofs in the 1975 proof sets are also type I so the type alone is not sufficient to identify 40% silver.)

All 76-S Unc quarters and halves are 40%, and the 76-S quarter and half in the three piece Bicentennial proof set are also 40%.
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 Posted 12/24/2009  3:09 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add nancyk to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you for the info on 40% status of coins. The list is quite comprehensive and will be helpful to me when sorting through the hundreds of Ikes I have accumulated.
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You have a very slim chance of finding one of the silver Ikes so do not get your hopes up but it does happen occasionally. They were specifically sold to collectors in special packaging so it would be about as rare as finding a proof. You may also want to check out this site.
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12/24/2009 7:07 pm
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I have to agree that finding a Silver Ike in the wild is a major accomplishment and I dare to say much harder than finding a proof. I have found 2 silver Ikes but that was about 25 years ago when Ikes were still circulating a little and easier to obtain from banks. I've found about 15 proofs this year (mostly halves (1 silver) and a few nickels and a silver State Quarter). The problem with finding good stuff searching Ikes is that you can't find enough of them to really have a good chance at finding NIFC's
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