Maybe $00,000 find or only a $.10 cent fluke.

[Dozer D]

Going through a box of dimes the other night, found only 2-Rosie's, BUT also found this 2003-D dime. It's about AU, rim is white AG looking like a newly stamped 1964 silver dime, feels like, sounds like silver, but I don't have a gram scale to check for the 2.5 gram AG vs the 2.27 clads. If it is by chance silver, could it have fallen out of the cracks on the coin press after all these years since 1964, or maybe after stamping some special coinage coins (ie proofs). Does anyone have any ideas on how to check it for silver? If it IS, could be worth big bucks; if it's covered coated then only worth ten cents. Wish me luck. Two pics of rim, however obverse & reverse not clear in pics.
Please note, the other coins showing clad rims are like NEW 2013's & 2014's, to compare the AG rim.

 

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[starkizzle]

Or its a canadian lol.. if its siler that's a nice find

 

[ArkieBassMan]

There is virtually no way it could be silver. All the silver proofs are struck in San Francisco. There shouldn't be a silver blank in the entire building, but I suppose one could somehow have gotten in there.

The most likely causes are plating or just a weird clad blank with no copper showing. It could also be a wrong (foreign) planchet error as I believe we still mint coinage for some foreign countries.

 

[Coppercrazy]

I have seen many people on here before who have claimed all the same things you have and it always turns out it was plated and they were just imagining the sound of silver when dropping it. Don't get your hopes up. Hope it is real though!

 

[BuffaloBoy]

sorry. its plated, I find them from time to time also.

 

[huntsman53]

On the edge of the coin, you can scrape the rim ticking or in the recesses to see if the Silver color goes all the way through or if Copper shows. Don't try scraping anywhere else on the coin, just in case that out of the hundred million to one chances, that the coin is actually Silver. Also, weigh the coin on an accurate scale that weighs in grams and tenths of grams to see what it weighs in comparison to a normal 2003-D Roosevelt Dime (i.e. a normal Copper-Clad Roosevelt Dime should weigh 2.27 grams). In comparison, a normal Silver Roosevelt Dime minted from 1946 to 1964 as well as the Silver Proof issues to Present Day, should weigh 2.5 grams. If in fact it is Silver, then you you need to send it off for certification, grading and attribution (i.e. Minted on wrong metal planchet).


Frank