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Message:: [QUOTE="Irish2Ice, post: 1534169, member: 28761"]If it's a 1971 Ike with no mint mark then it's Cu/Ni Clad.  All "S" mint marked Ike's in 1971 and 1972 were silver.  There is always the 1 in-a 1,000,000 shot it's an error.....but I wouldn't count on it or buy a scale to check. FWIW, and to educate anyone looking at Ike's, the only Copper/Nickel "S" mint Ike's were mint Proof coins (in the mint proof sets) from 1973-1978.  It's VERY easy to tell if they are Cu/Ni by the band of copper around the edge.  There were NO silver Ike's minted in 1977-1978.  And all the Silver Proofs from 1971-1974 were in the Brown mint Boxes by themselves.  The "business" struck silver Ike's were in the blue mint envelopes w/ an "S" mint mark. The 1976's were a little more complicated.[/QUOTE]