I found this dime in some change I received. Not sure why it's copper colored. Any suggestions or answers?
Looks to be ED - Environmental Damage The clad layer of a Dime can have the normal color change due to Environmental factors. I have been metal detecting for many years and have dug up hundreds of Dimes such as yours. Soil, dirt, sand, water, hot/cold weather and chemicals can do this to your coin. Here are some of my finds -
There is an error called Missing Clad layer, but on most of them it only occurs on one side Here are two from my collection -
Oh nice! I just signed up for this site. Hoping I can get some questions answered about a lot of my coins I've been keeping from folks who know what they're talking about. Thanks for the info!
Very nice error coins. I think there was another collector here who had a BU Kennedy with copper showing.
@barnes200765 I found this Kennedy in a $100 Mixed P&D bag that the Mint released in 2004. It cost 68c! @paddyman98 I know that paddy would love to have this in his collection. Maybe I will leave it to him in my will if he outlives me. Chris
This JFK IS just an absolute beauty...thou shall not covet thy neighbors coin...thou shall not...being good is so darn difficult!
Thanks for the compliment! I very rarely see a coin that has lost its clad layer yet has remained so brilliantly copper-colored. I got this in an order from the Mint, but so many coins missing the clad layer have been found after being in circulation for a while. Chris
When the copper-nickel mixture wears off, the coin exposes its copper under layer, thus the brownish color of its surface. This occurrence is considered an error, as the silver surface is not supposed to wear off. This error is called the clad coin.
Pretty sure this is wrong in just about every detail. The cupronickel layer does NOT "wear off" unless you take a grinder to the coin. It's thick. Anything "wearing off" a coin is not considered "an error", it's considered wear. If it was ground off instead, it's "damage". A "clad coin" is one that's struck from a clad planchet -- in other words, a normal coin. A missing clad layer is an error where one or both cupronickel layers weren't present on the planchet. Good examples of this are scarce and valuable. The coin that started this thread, lo these six years ago, was dirty and/or corroded.
