Silver that looks clad when edge hunting?

[mtk76]

I picked up 50$ in wrapped halves that looked and were marked like dumps. Didn't really want them after seeing that but took them anyway and was rewarded with 1 dirty 68 that looked clad cause all the luster was gone. I normally don't date check but did in this case or would have missed it. Any idea how common clad looking silver haves are? Am I missing a lot by usually only edge checking?

 

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[AdDicted2Ag]

When you are edge checking, do a sound check afterwards.. you will most likely not ever miss any, but you have to listen carefully.... Date checking takes way too long if you want to do any type of volume..

 

[bigmike0377]

I am new to it but I check all dates because I have several that I would have missed just by looking at the side.

 

[maverick]

When you are edge checking, do a sound check afterwards.. you will most likely not ever miss any, but you have to listen carefully.... Date checking takes way too long if you want to do any type of volume..

+1, sound check never lies, just kinda sift them 1 by 1 real qwik bumping them into each other as you do, if there is Silver, you'll hear it for sure. HH, Maverick.

 

[ArkieBassMan]

You are likely missing a few. The "clad looking" 40%ers aren't common in my experience, but they are out there. Maybe 1 out of every 200 or so might have slipped by me had I been edge-checking only. But while on a road trip once, there was one bank that produced about 40 of these at one time. Missing 1 40%er a month wouldn't be the end of the world. Missing out on two complete rolls would have been horrible.

Learn the sound of silver clanking against other coins or even a table vs. the sound of clad doing the same. As the others have stated, the sound test never lies.

 

[Weaselbrott]

I have had the same experience

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