Proof Sets

Copper nickel clad, 5.67 grams, Silver clad weighs a bit more five point seven five grams. A good scale is a must have for a coin collector.

 

Log in or Sign up to hide this ad.

Only if it was from the three coin set that was offered that year. Regular clad sets were also issued.

 

If I were to use a red book to buy coins and wanted to know how much it was worth how much percent should I take off the price in the red book? Example: if there was a coin worth 200 in au50 and in the red book it said it was worth 400 I would take 50% off.

 

Dear fellow, Red Book for quick look up, but ebay, teletrade, heritage, completed auctions for a clear view..........

 

geez guys ya'll people act like the red book is accurate...lol. best way to figure the value of some thing is to use a coin world price guide.. its usually as comparable to a grey sheet

 

Please... nobody said it was accurate at all (coin value wise). They said buy it for the info only.

 

I grab the Red Book every day for some quick facts. It's just too easy. I'm using a 2008. The pricing is still helpful in one way. It gives a rough idea of the date and mint mark of coins that have a better value over others.

 

If it is business strike quality it is 40% silver. If it is a proof then it could go either way. A tissue test should tell you. Put a single layer of tissue paper over it (facial tissue, toilet tissue etc) If the coin looks WHITE through the tissue it is silver. If it looks dull gray it is coppernickel.

Weight will not tell you anything and the copper nickel and 40% silver have mint tolerance ranges that are so broad that most any weight you get would be within the tolerance range for both types.

 

What ever happened to just looking at the edge to see if a coin is silver, 40% or 90%.

 

Sometimes 40% can look like the modern clad coins,