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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 4986074, member: 10461"]Exactly. Detectorists are familiar with that look.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a legitimate missing clad layer on a 2001-P dime I once had. The obverse got struck on what should have been the inner copper core, had the planchet been the usual "sandwich" with two outer layers of copper-nickel and an inner layer of pure copper or bronze. You see the stark contrast, and note also that the reverse side is pristine and looks as a normal dime should.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/9ztJSukUS9GISUvmj8tA_dime2001b.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>When a copper-nickel coin is a brownish color on <i>both</i> sides, I would imagine that's usually environmental damage, 99+% of the time.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=44615]@paddyman98[/USER] only posted one side of each of his coins, and the pictures are a little dark, so you don't quite see the contrast.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I suspect you'd see something like my coin's "two-tone" effect on his: a silvery/whitish color on the side that was struck on the outer clad layer of copper-nickel, and a reddish color on the side that was struck on the exposed inner copper core, due to one of the copper-nickel outer layers being missing. One will usually see some softness of strike on this side, too, because the resulting coin is thinner than it should be. Note the somewhat indistinct lower edges on the obverse of my coin here.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 4986074, member: 10461"]Exactly. Detectorists are familiar with that look. Here is a legitimate missing clad layer on a 2001-P dime I once had. The obverse got struck on what should have been the inner copper core, had the planchet been the usual "sandwich" with two outer layers of copper-nickel and an inner layer of pure copper or bronze. You see the stark contrast, and note also that the reverse side is pristine and looks as a normal dime should. [IMG]https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/9ztJSukUS9GISUvmj8tA_dime2001b.jpg[/IMG] When a copper-nickel coin is a brownish color on [I]both[/I] sides, I would imagine that's usually environmental damage, 99+% of the time. [USER=44615]@paddyman98[/USER] only posted one side of each of his coins, and the pictures are a little dark, so you don't quite see the contrast. But I suspect you'd see something like my coin's "two-tone" effect on his: a silvery/whitish color on the side that was struck on the outer clad layer of copper-nickel, and a reddish color on the side that was struck on the exposed inner copper core, due to one of the copper-nickel outer layers being missing. One will usually see some softness of strike on this side, too, because the resulting coin is thinner than it should be. Note the somewhat indistinct lower edges on the obverse of my coin here.[/QUOTE]
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