What is it worth. It is a 1967 Dime with no Clad, (I THINK). I scanned it next to a 1954 dime so the two can be compared. Tell me what you think??? This is the way I found it. Does it look right???? If so what would something like this be worth??? If anything??? Im not really interested in money just would like to know what I got. Thanks for looking.
Im sure you are right. how can i be sure, should i try to make a mark on it to see under the brown layer?
If it was in the ground, the clad layer would be gone after a while, so making a mark on it would just show more copper.
It does look like it has just been exposed to the elements. Do you have a scale to weigh it. A normal clad dime should weigh 2.27 gms. Chris
Are you saying the copper-nickel clad layers dissolve over time when a coin is buried in the ground? I have dug numerous clad coins and they were generally tarnished (like the coin in the OP). I have never seen nor have I ever heard of copper-nickel dissolving due to being buried in the ground. If copper-nickel (75% copper / 25% nickel) will dissolve due to being buried in the ground we would not be able to find buried nickels (which are the exact same composition as the outside clad layers of clad coins). Metaldetorists regularly find Shield Nickels (1866-1883), Liberty Nickels, Buffalo Nickels, and Jefferson Nickels buried in the ground and they have not dissolved, even after 145 years in the ground.
Thanks Chris that is a good ideal. That will be the next step, find out the weight. Im not trying to pass this coin off as real, I just want to make sure before I go spend it at the store. I got this coin from a jar of old coins and was not sure (as I am a beginner).
He was probably thinking about cheap nickel plating, which will corrode over time. It would take some highly acidic soil to "dissolve" the outer cupro-nickel layer!
Weigh it in grains, also check the thickness, then weigh a regular clad dime in grains. Compare the results and if they are significant enough and you are sure the coin is not just dirty or messed up in some way, then send it in to get it TPG certified and sell it for big bucks on eBay.
Or take the advice of other posters here, in particular, maybe the ones that search through thousands of dimes (In my case, hundreds of thousands) every year and find examples like this all the time, and toss it with the pile of change to be cashed back in. Seriously, I find 3-5 of these in every box of dimes.
Thanks again to everyone. After all the great info I made a decision to try and make a mark on the dime just to see, and it turns out that it was covered with something that looks like rust to me( almost like a fine copper dust of some sort ). So yes the coin had been buried I think. However the nickel plating was still there. I wanted to make the mark on it from the start, but wanted to make sure that it was not something special first. So thanks again for the very useful, and accurate info. Im a beginner at this and sure I will have more questions later, and it is good to know that I have some stright up people to turn to.
