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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Michael K, post: 2899233, member: 78298&quot;]I doubt this is silver.</p><p>But this has been mentioned before. People are cleaning up at the mint. And production is halted at this time. Because you can&#039;t pick up a planchet, put it in your pocket and go home with it, it is always possible that a stray silver planchet that was found in a weird place, (jammed in a machine, or something) was just tossed into a bin of clad planchets by a member of the janitorial crew, and it ends up getting coined.</p><p>This scenario is completely innocent and possible. Look at the cents which were coined on copper planchets. And not the 1983-D. There&#039;s a 1989-D and others. So it is possible to have a later date half on a 40% planchet.</p><p>The scenarios I don&#039;t like is when someone intentionally coins an error coin, and smuggles that coin out of the mint, and later it is sold for 5 figures. Those coins to me are illegal, and should be confiscated and destroyed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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