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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1136730, member: 19463&quot;]Copper Nickel clad Ikes will show a copper color to the edge. Silver was only used for certain proofs and special collector&#039;s coins by the time Ike&#039;s came out but in all honesty you need to learn to tell real silver from copper nickel alloy just by sight or feel. Get some pre 1964 dimes and earlier and feel them compared to the new stuff and you should soon get an idea what silver feels like. Is &#039;soapy&#039; a good word for it? If you are going to buy anything US, I&#039;d invest in a RedBook. Under Ike, you will find that collector&#039;s issues were struck in a silver clad sandwich (like the &quot;40%&quot; 1965-70 halves). The circulation issues were made in acopper-nickel sandwich with a red copper central layer that shows when you look at the edge. Due to this post I learned in a RedBook note that there were a few 1974D Ikes struck by mistake on silver flans but the 2011 RB does not price them. Yours has no D so it definitely is not one but I suspect these would be worth quite a bit.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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