My sister found this while at work: http://i54.tinypic.com/156tg6f.jpg http://i51.tinypic.com/wqlxh.jpg http://i52.tinypic.com/oz154.jpg It's a 2008 D dime. The heads side is clearly made out of nickel, but when you flip it over the tails side looks like copper. When I look at it on the side it looks almost fully copper, I can't see any nickel-copper-nickel layers. Also, on the heads side at the top of his head around the edge it looks like the nickel is flaking off revealing a tiny bit of copper underneath. Is it an error coin? What would it be called?
*Walks into empty topic* Well I guess no one here knows much about this. After a little bit of googling I discovered that this type of error is called "Missing Clad Layer". I wonder how much it's worth.
Broadstrike. And idk what made it that color but it doesn't look like a missing clad layer to me. Its more of a golden toned color than copper color. Jmo
The camera I originally used wasn't very good and it was in bad light. I took some new pics outside with a better camera: http://i54.tinypic.com/11hsz00.jpg http://i52.tinypic.com/2qixpck.jpg http://i52.tinypic.com/2dhcwgw.jpg
Throw that baby on a scale. Weigh it, see if its different from a regular dime. Dimes do tone like that often.
Some error coin sites for the OP to check out: Mint Error News.com Byers Numismatic Corp Also, as to the worth, if authentic, it will retain more of it's potential value as an error if it can be authenticated and if you take care of the coin better from this point on. Only hold the coin between your fingers on the edge and keep it away from that concrete in your pictures, only handle a coin over a soft protective surface.
I wasn't trying to say it was toned; I was just saying thats the color the photo made it look. Sorry for the confusion.
I think we can rule out a dime struck on a cent planchet. Think about it - a cent planchet is larger in diameter than a dime and therefore would not fit inside the collar for dimes. Also, the obverse of the dime clearly is cupro-nickel which is not found in cents.
1)Not a broad strike, misaligned die -- obverse 2) Not missing a clad layer, the strike would be far weake. 3) not struck on a different plachet (cent) impossible. 4) ?
