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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;umtrr-author, post: 143014, member: 5719&quot;]I&#039;ll take a shot... and more knowledgable folks please feel free to jump in.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Clad&quot; generally means that a metal has been &quot;bonded&quot; to a core of, usually, another metal.&nbsp; (I can&#039;t think of an example where it&#039;s the same metal, but you know what happens when you assume.)&nbsp; For example, the circulation quarters are copper-nickel clad over a core of copper.</p><p><br /></p><p>If a coin is &quot;silver-clad&quot; that means that silver is the &quot;outside&quot; metal.&nbsp; Those are only being made for proof sets these days (and only some of those sets).&nbsp; The example you note (2006-S Clad) should have noted whether it is silver clad or copper-nickel clad.&nbsp; The value depends on the usual factors not the least of which is the number minted of silver-clad vs. copper-nickel clad.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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