1992 d silver dime?

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Weiss
Weiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Found by a detectorist in change. Sure looks silver.

Wrong planchet? Foreign planchet? Or is it just plated?

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We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
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  • bigtonydallas
    bigtonydallas Posts: 1,126 ✭✭✭
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    WHAT DOES THE RIM LOOK LIKE?
    Big Tony from Texas! Cherrypicking fool!!!!!!
  • Weiss
    Weiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    << <i>WHAT DOES THE RIM LOOK LIKE? >>



    .05" thick, reeded, compressed metal. Slightly lustruous.

    You drive with your brakes on, too?
    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • CaptHenway
    CaptHenway Posts: 34,164 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    << <i>Found by a detectorist in change. Sure looks silver.

    Wrong planchet? Foreign planchet? Or is it just plated?

    image >>



    Check the weight. Silver is 2.5 grams. Copper-nickel clad 2.27 grams. Silver plate one, maybe 2.28-2.29 grams.
    TD
    Professional Numismatist, Retired. 55 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and ANA Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner of the PNG's 2026 Robert Friedberg Award for "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.
  • kranky
    kranky Posts: 8,709 ✭✭✭
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    Silver dimes weigh 2.50 grams, clad dimes weigh 2.27 grams.

    [edit] TD was too quick for me. image

    New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.

  • lsica
    lsica Posts: 1,759 ✭✭✭✭
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    Man, you BETTER get to weighin' that thing and tell us if it's legit image
    Philately will get you nowhere....
  • bigtonydallas
    bigtonydallas Posts: 1,126 ✭✭✭
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    WEISS,
    IF IT IS PLATED THE REEDING WILL LOOK MUFFLED OR FILLED DEPENDING ON THE PLATING JOB. DID YOU GOT OFFENDED BY ME ASKING WHAT THE RIM LOOKED LIKE????
    Big Tony from Texas! Cherrypicking fool!!!!!!
  • Weiss
    Weiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    << <i>WEISS,
    DID YOU GOT OFFENDED BY ME ASKING WHAT THE RIM LOOKED LIKE???? >>



    No, your caps lock is on.
    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • cladking
    cladking Posts: 30,312 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Everyone's wondering if it's a proof planchet gone astray.

    ttt
    tempus fugit extra philosophiam.
  • ziggy29
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    << <i>Everyone's wondering if it's a proof planchet gone astray. >>

    Not sure how it would have wound up at the Denver Mint, though.
  • FredWeinberg
    FredWeinberg Posts: 6,039 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    It's been altered/plated/screwed with
    after it left the Mint.......
    Retired Collector & Dealer in Major Mint Error Coins & Currency since the 1960's.Co-Author of Whitman's "100 Greatest U.S. Mint Error Coins", and the Error Coin Encyclopedia, Vols., III & IV. Retired Authenticator for Major Mint Errors for PCGS. A 50+ Year PNG Member.A full-time numismatist since 1972, retired in 2022.
  • CaptHenway
    CaptHenway Posts: 34,164 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    << <i>

    << <i>Everyone's wondering if it's a proof planchet gone astray. >>

    Not sure how it would have wound up at the Denver Mint, though. >>



    Back in the mid-1970's, San Francisco used to send reject Proof copper-nickel clad Ike Planchets to Denver to be used for business strikes. This was reasonable. However, occasionally some of the 40% silver planchets got mixed in and were struck in Denver. The same could theoretically happen today, though I do not know if they are still sending the reject Proof planchets to Denver.
    TD
    Professional Numismatist, Retired. 55 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and ANA Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner of the PNG's 2026 Robert Friedberg Award for "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.
  • kranky
    kranky Posts: 8,709 ✭✭✭
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    Capt. Henway, there's a former Denver Mint employee (Michael Lantz) who will be giving a talk at the ANA - I wonder if he would know. I caught his talk at CSNS (Conder101 was there as well) and he basically just takes questions from those in attendance.

    New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.

  • cladking
    cladking Posts: 30,312 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Trying to track the totes for planchets would be a herculean task in modern
    times. In the past planchets could get mixed up because many coins were
    minted here but now the totes are being moved around a lot and this prob-
    ably includes being used at the facilities of the planchet manufacturers. There
    was even a sac dollar struck on the outer ring of a Canadian twoonie a few
    years back.

    This one probably isn't silver judging by its appearance but it would still be neat
    if it were.
    tempus fugit extra philosophiam.
  • Newb
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    << <i>You drive with your brakes on, too? >>



    lmao - gotta remember that one
  • JustaRookie
    JustaRookie Posts: 566 ✭
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    Gotta know the weight as well, not beyond the possibility but high improbibility! I know of Weiss from the TD MD site. He won't even begin to figure out who I am. image
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