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Dime with missing clad layer?
- Thread starter yowow#1
- Start date
DiggerODirt
Active member
Hard to tell by a picture, but looks to just be tarnished....???
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Never tumbled, just dug and soaked in a little water and dish soap to clean the dirt off it, used a tiny bit of polish to see if that did anything and it only polished the copper i researched it a little and there are known mint error dimes that left the mint with no nickel clad on one or both sides. The picture on the right is a mint error coin with nickel clad only on the obverse side, just curious if this is mint error. i guess a coin dealer would know for sure. Thanks for looking.
Blind Squirrel
Well-known member
Howdy yowow#1--
You did the right thing by rinsing and soaking that coin. It always saddens me when I see coins with numismatic value harshly cleaned. There are some posters that dig beautiful Barber quarters and half $'s and they look like nice XF coins as they come out of the ground, easily worth a 100 bill. Then they show them after they "clean them up" and they have reduced their value to slightly over spot melt. Kind of like finding a barnyard1953 Corvette and painting it pink and pulling the 6 out of it and putting a 350 in it so it goes faster hahah.
I have found a few zinc cents without copper plating in circulation and they are worth a few bucks. I hope that your dime turns out to be the error coin. Best of luck and ...
Happy Hunting!
Blind Squirrel
You did the right thing by rinsing and soaking that coin. It always saddens me when I see coins with numismatic value harshly cleaned. There are some posters that dig beautiful Barber quarters and half $'s and they look like nice XF coins as they come out of the ground, easily worth a 100 bill. Then they show them after they "clean them up" and they have reduced their value to slightly over spot melt. Kind of like finding a barnyard1953 Corvette and painting it pink and pulling the 6 out of it and putting a 350 in it so it goes faster hahah.
I have found a few zinc cents without copper plating in circulation and they are worth a few bucks. I hope that your dime turns out to be the error coin. Best of luck and ...
Happy Hunting!
Blind Squirrel
