1976 D 10c - Didn't they gold plate some for the Bicentenial?

I've had this coin for a very long time and was going through my meager collection when I rediscovered it. Is is a gold-plated dime? It weighs 2.29g and a "normal" dime I checked weighed 2.30g. So I don't believe it was made using a different metal.






The scratch to the neck doesn't expose the "normal" color of a dime.



I cannot remember much about this coin. What say you?

~Rob

 

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Wow yours is really golden.I believe yours is plated.

 

No. The US Mint did not gold plate Dimes back then.
What you are seeing is some kind of environmental toning or alteration to the clad. Occured after it left the US Mint

 

look familiar ?

 

Thanks Paddy... I thought they ran a Bicentennial series that was gold plated? I'm pretty sure they did for the higher denominations but not sure about the dime. I bought that coin well over 35 years ago, so can't remember. Could be that I was a gullible kid back then too...

~Rob

 

Sensible, Mine is very bright, not subdued and does not have the surface wear the one in your pictures seem to have. When I bought it as a kid I kept it in my coin box in a sleeve. Been that way for 35+ years.

~Rob

 

Yes you are right , Maybe just toned

 

Depends on who you mean by "they". The US mint had nothing to do with gold plating bicentennial coins, but private companies plated them after the fact to sell them at a profit.

 

Franklin "Mint" or equivalent may have plated some Bicentennial coins. Not the US Mint that I've ever seen .

Z

 

A teller at my local branch bank had a gold plated 1971 Kennedy...
Hated to tell her.... well you know

 

Gottcha... Good point.

~Rob

 

Yeah, I know the plating... if that is what it is... is very thin and adds very little value to the coin as a precious metal.

~Rob

 

I'm sure many of you know tellers in your banks. Some may know you collect coin and when you go to your bank/credit union, the teller may want to show you a coin that they had taken in. That happened to me about 2 years ago. A teller at our credit union (a former student of my wife's) saw me and took me aside and was very eager to show me a gold quarter that a customer had given her. She had it in a small box wrapped in a piece of cloth. She took me into the SDB room and showed it to me. It was a 2002D Washington Quarter layered with a thin coat of gold "paint"? I took out my handkerchief and lifted the coin from her box to look at the coin closely. I wanted her to know I wasn't going to "bust her bubble", but I also didn't want her to think that the coin was a valuable item. I looked at it very close and then I had to tell her the truth, that it was a real Washington quarter that someone or some business had taken a real coin and had it coated with come type of gold coating. I told her that it was only worth about $20 and I would like to buy it if she would like to sell it. I think that she was very happy that I was willing to give her $20 for a gold coated quarter. It was worth it, because everytime I go to the credit union, she shows me coins that had come into the credit union. Many of the coins aren't worth too much, but I always give her more than the coins are worth. Now the other tellers have gotten into selling me coin collections. It has cost me over $200 over the years, but the value of the friendship that I have gotten is worth thousands. (By the way, I still have the gold coated 2002 D quarter and will never sell it or give it away.)

 

Awesome story! Thanks, Jim. I knew an old gal when I was growing up as a kid in my very small 600 people town. She owned a Mercantile store and had some antiques and what not. She would always show me her coins. It is where I got the gold color coin, between 1978 and 1980. I am sure of the timeline because I moved to the town in '78 and she passed in late '80/early '81. She was about 90 years of age. She didn't sell it to me, she gave it to me, so I hold it dear to my heart and I'm glad I rediscovered it. I'm sure she told me how she came to have it and what the circumstances were but I cannot remember. If gold plated somehow, great! If gold colored due to some type of dipping, great! Its a keeper to me, none the less.

~Rob

 

A little sugar goes along ways. Treat the tellers nice and the karma will be returned.

 

you can buy as many gold plated coins for any year as you want ... just not from the US MINT ...

but from a *variety* of private mints and token makers, such as this one:
https://www.merrickmint.com/24k-gold-plated-coins.html?limit=64&mode=grid

 

Were there such businesses prevalent back in the 1970s/1980s? I'm sure, if it were to be discovered to be gold plated, someone could have done it and it just found its way to her, and thus me.

~Rob

 

I have seen penny,nickel, dime, quarter, and half dollar gold plate but have never seen a gold plated Morgan Silver Dollar, have you?

 

No... Not that I can recollect.

 

I have really enjoyed this line of thought. You folks are neat to read what you post. I was thinking about something that I bought from the Mint back in 2016. They were selling gold Mercury Dimes, Standing Liberty Quarters, and Walking Liberty Half Dollars. I was lucky to get the quarter and Half dollar coins, but they sold out of the gold Mercury Dimes. I signed up to get a Mercury Dime if any were returned or credit cards were not valid for one reason another. I decided not to have them graded, having been burnt by my MMIX Ultra High Relief Gold Coin by PCGS. I never could get PCGS to tell me exactly what was wrong with the coin. You would think that I was a leper by the way they avoided me. I was told that the coin had been examined by a grader and that there were no "do-overs". I like buying RAW coins now. Anyway, I love those coins.