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<p>[QUOTE="satootoko, post: 117913, member: 669"]If it is missing cladding it should weigh noticeably less than a normal dime. Even if you don't have an accurate scale you can check that with a pencil and a popsicle stick. Just balance the popsicle stick on a pencil, then place your questioned dime and a normal one at the very ends of the stick. If yours goes up and the other goes down, it's lighter.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then look at the surface uner at least 5x magnification, and preferably 10x or more, to see if the surface shows signs of having been "worked" to remove cladding, which would indicate post-mint damage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="satootoko, post: 117913, member: 669"]If it is missing cladding it should weigh noticeably less than a normal dime. Even if you don't have an accurate scale you can check that with a pencil and a popsicle stick. Just balance the popsicle stick on a pencil, then place your questioned dime and a normal one at the very ends of the stick. If yours goes up and the other goes down, it's lighter. Then look at the surface uner at least 5x magnification, and preferably 10x or more, to see if the surface shows signs of having been "worked" to remove cladding, which would indicate post-mint damage.[/QUOTE]
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