Pick the winner.

[JD-GA]

So which is silver? Coin on the left is coin A, middle is coin B and on the right is coin C.

 

[2Cents]

I vote for none of the above.

 

[SFBayArea]

All are..40%ers

 

[DrDetector]

40, 90, clad

 

[JD-GA]

Hope the hat taste better than how i felt when i saw coin b's rim in a roll of clad only to find it wasnt haha. Here they are in the same order A - C left to right just like the picture above.

Cleary coin A was burnt or stained and that happens. Coin B really threw me for a loop. It was the first roll of a box and i was stoked that the first roll had silver. I mean it was a no question silver rim until i saw the date. The whole box ended up a skunk. Then coin C has an obvious clad rim yet was very shiny front and back. I always check the dates. Have been fooled 7 times this week alone.

 

[2Cents]

I always check the dates. Coin C is surprising. Rotating them around helps alot espceially on the really worn or dirty coins. I don't do heavy volume so I can take the extra time.

 

[JD-GA]

Yeah coin C you can rotate all ya want. It appears mostly copper 360 degrees of the rim. Coin b looks like silver in a roll from 15 feet away yet isnt. I drop tested it, flipped it, even looked it up on the internet to see if they made any type silver in that year. Very confusing.

 

[ivan salis]

silver from a "s" proof set?

 

[ArkieBassMan]

Was '72 one of the years that some of the "s" proof coins had no "s"?

 

[fistfulladirt]

Plated.

 

[JD-GA]

The 72 makes absolutely no discerning sounds against a table or another coin or in the air flipping. There is no mint mark though.

Fistfull--did they really plate a non mint mark in that year?

 

[fistfulladirt]

The 72 makes absolutely no discerning sounds against a table or another coin or in the air flipping. There is no mint mark though.

Fistfull--did they really plate a non mint mark in that year?

JD, not plated by the mint, plated by a consumer. I have found gold-plated, chrome-plated, annodized, and everything in between. My coolest find was a chrome-plated 1964 Roosevelt dime. At first glance I thought it was a proof coin. ffd

 

[GMan00001]

I always check the dates. Coin C is surprising. Rotating them around helps alot espceially on the really worn or dirty coins. I don't do heavy volume so I can take the extra time.

I was actually guessing A and C, but I was too late to put in a guess as the answer as was already available.

Coin C looks like one that spent quite a while in a casino. I have a few of them from the casino that look just like that one. I am not sure if its just so worn down that it is showing the non-silver from within or if it is from rubbing against so many other clad coins and taking some from them.

My guess is its from within as only 40% halves I have found at casinos have had this look, 90% halves have not.