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Question about the composition of the circulating Trump Dollar-- ANSWERED
CaptHenway
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Who has some of the circulating Trump dollars in hand? Please verify the composition.
I had been presuming that they were the normal manganese-nickel-brass clad on a pure copper core used on the circulation issue dollars since the Sacagawea was introduced in 2000. Here is the mint website's composition for them:
However, this picture from last night's issue of the E-Sylum appears to have a copper-nickel cladding reverse.
Is this just a bad photograph of the reverse, or what?
Thanks.
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They're the normal golden dollar clad. Apparently the mint, like many other sources, are giving the net metals content, implying that they are a solid alloy.
Taking the image of the reverse was difficult. It has a very light manganese look to it. This color would not show no matter how the image was taken. Unfortunately, it is a confusing image.
Here is the CoinWeek article, based on the Mint Error News discovery article.
It is going viral now. The story ran in MoneyWise, then Yahoo Financial and AOL.
There are three known verified Trump Dollars with missing clad layers so far.
https://minterrornews.com/discoveries-10-7-26-error-on-new-trump-dollar.html
https://coinweek.com/check-your-mint-bags-three-trump-dollar-missing-clad-layer-errors-now-reported/
Thank you. I suspicioned a bad picture, but that really looked like copper-nickel.
If these coins are brass-clad onto a pure copper core, then a "missing clad layer error" should look coppery, not cupronickel - there is no part or layer of a golden dollar that is silvery in colour.
From the article, it's actually the obverse of that particular coin that's missing the clad layer - so both images above are the "wrong colour" - the obverse should be coppery-red, the reverse should be the normal golden-yellow.
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Apparently I have been awarded the DPOTD twice.
Yeah, bad color balance on both sides.
Moneywise corrected their quote. The article originally confused the value of the 3 known missing clad layers with the value of the improperly annealed Trump Dollars:
I need to explain the reverse image.
The reverse has a light manganese look to it. But it won’t come out in the images that were taken. Changing the lighting, angle or distance from the coin didn’t help either.
What I did NOT want to do, was to alter the color, which is a misrepresentation.