Is this considered a missing clad layer? I have not weighed it, my brother has my scale right now. It also has what looks like a "2" in the middle of it
If the clad layer was missing, a bright copper layer would be on one side. Here is a partial so you can see the difference. Also if you weigh the coin and it weighs a normal amount, there's nothing missing.
There's no clad on the reeding to fall off. The clad coins are a sandwich. The outer layers are a copper and nickel alloy and that creates the silvery looking metal. The inner core is copper. It's solid. So if you remove the outside metal you are left with a copper core.
Yes. Paredolia. Something playing tricks on your eyes. Its just an old environmentaly damaged Dime. No mint error of any kind
The recessed copper core is the result of being in a caustic environment. The copper is eaten away faster than the cupronickel cladding.
Luckily Google even reaches Alabama this century, although I think they transmit the signal over the barbed wire like they do in rural Texas. https://lmgtfy.com/?q=Paredolia&iie=1
