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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;torontokuba, post: 1882963, member: 56793&quot;]Weren&#039;t the 1968&#039;s 50% silver and nickel, told apart by using a magnet?</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #808080"><i>&quot;For the first half of the year 1967 10 cent coins were struck to the 800 fine purity standard, and then they switched to the 500 fine purity standard. There is no simple way to determine which purity a particular example was struck at, as they look exactly the same.</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #808080"><i>1968 saw a return to the standard reverse of the Bluenose schooner. These 1968 silver 10 cent cons were struck to the 50% silver purity standard.</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #808080"><i>Note that both silver and nickel ten cent coins were struck in 1968. A magnet will pick up those made from nickel, but not from silver. Proof-like strikings only occur in nickel.&quot;</i></span></p><p><a href="http://www.calgarycoin.com/modern/cd10cent.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.calgarycoin.com/modern/cd10cent.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.calgarycoin.com/modern/cd10cent.htm</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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