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carscars Posts: 1,904
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Asked on the coin forum but didn't really get a response. Wondering if 1968 25C and 10C coins are in fact 50% silver content.

Thanks
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  • KollectorKingKollectorKing Posts: 4,820 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Asked on the coin forum but didn't really get a response. Wondering if 1968 25C and 10C coins are in fact 50% silver content.

    Thanks >>




    Your answer is here......

    answer link
  • SmittysSmittys Posts: 9,877 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Canadian dimes and quarters , from 1967 are 50% silver
    some of the 1968 Dimes and quarters are 50% but not all
    https://www.ebay.com/str/christyscoins
  • carscars Posts: 1,904


    << <i>Canadian dimes and quarters , from 1967 are 50% silver
    some of the 1968 Dimes and quarters are 50% but not all >>



    Where does this info come from and how do you know which is which. I've never heard this, The link posted above does not claim that either.
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  • jdimmickjdimmick Posts: 9,935 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Rick,

    It s printed in the Krause world coin book and tells you how to tell

    jim
  • Coll3ctorColl3ctor Posts: 3,385 ✭✭✭
    "Where does this info come from and how do you know which is which. I've never heard this, The link posted above does not claim that either"



    I sorted through a handful of the 1968's a while back. The silver ones look more like REAL silver image If you had one of each in your hand it would not be hard to tell the difference.
  • carscars Posts: 1,904


    << <i>Rick,

    It s printed in the Krause world coin book and tells you how to tell

    jim >>



    That would be great had I owned one. I do not own anything to do with coins as I don't really care for them.
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  • Coll3ctorColl3ctor Posts: 3,385 ✭✭✭
    "I do not own anything to do with coins as I don't really care for them."


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    Bite your tongue !!!
  • DeadhorseDeadhorse Posts: 3,720 ✭


    << <i>Rick,

    It s printed in the Krause world coin book and tells you how to tell

    jim >>




    My fav B&M shop gave me their copy when they got a new one.

    That thing is like an ecyclopedia and weighs as much.
    "Lenin is certainly right. There is no subtler or more severe means of overturning the existing basis of society(destroy capitalism) than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and it does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose."
    John Marnard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920, page 235ff
  • carscars Posts: 1,904


    << <i>"I do not own anything to do with coins as I don't really care for them."


    imageimageimageimageimageimage


    Bite your tongue !!! >>



    Ooops, Did I say that? image
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  • lathmachlathmach Posts: 4,720 ✭
    Some are, some are made of nickel.
    I responded to your thread on the US coin forum.
    How to tell them apart.

    Ray
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 33,700 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The Canadian dimes and quarters of 1967 are either .800 fine or .500 fine. There is no easy way to tell them apart.
    The Canadian dimes and quarters of 1968 are either .500 fine or pure nickel. The nickel ones stick to a magnet.
    The Canadian halves and dollars of 1967 are all .800 fine.
    The Canadian halves and dollars of 1968 are all nickel.
    Numismatist. 54 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. Also won the PNG's Robert Friedberg Award for "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.
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