Silver thoughts.....

[wildcatman71]

Well, between freak ice storms....then rains....the ground is way to saturated to do some real hunting. Yesterday, I was in a local grocery store and as I passed by a coin star machine, I saw a coin sitting on the shelf. I picked it up and saw it was a 1968 Canadian dime. It looked like silver.....much to my dismay they stopped putting silver in these is 1967. BUMMER. Still cool I guess. C'mon spring!

 

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[seger98]

Oh so close, but yet so far away!

 

[fistfulladirt]

Well, between freak ice storms....then rains....the ground is way to saturated to do some real hunting. Yesterday, I was in a local grocery store and as I passed by a coin star machine, I saw a coin sitting on the shelf. I picked it up and saw it was a 1968 Canadian dime. It looked like silver.....much to my dismay they stopped putting silver in these is 1967. BUMMER. Still cool I guess. C'mon spring!

Wildcatman, last year for silver WAS '68, and that really looks like (50%) silver to me. If a magnet doesn't stick, it's silver.

 

[wildcatman71]

Thanks Fistfulladirt, You are right. I must have looked at it wrong.....I just did a search again and this is what I found. it is 50% silver.
Years Mass Diameter/Shape Composition[1]
2000–present 1.75 g 18.03 mm 92.0% steel, 5.5% copper, 2.5% nickel plating
1979–1999 2.075 g 18.03 mm 99.9% nickel
1969–1978 2.07 g 18.03 mm 99.9% nickel
1968 2.07 g
2.33 g
18.03 mm
18.034 mm
99.9% nickel (172.5M)
50% silver, 50% copper (70.4M)

1967 2.33 g 18.034 mm 50% silver, 50% copper (30.6M)
80% silver, 20% copper (32.3M)

1920–1966 2.33 g 18.034 mm 80% silver, 20% copper
1910–1919 2.33 g 18.034 mm 92.5% silver, 7.5% copper
1858–1910 2.32 g 18.034 mm 92.5% silver, 7.5% copper

 

[kdismuke1]

GREAT COIN ANYWAY.

 

[Twin Digger]

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