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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 8408865, member: 27832&quot;]Pretty sure this is wrong in just about every detail.</p><p><br /></p><p>The cupronickel layer does NOT &quot;wear off&quot; unless you take a grinder to the coin. It&#039;s thick.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anything &quot;wearing off&quot; a coin is <i>not</i> considered &quot;an error&quot;, it&#039;s considered <i>wear</i>. If it was ground off instead, it&#039;s &quot;damage&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>A &quot;clad coin&quot; is one that&#039;s struck from a clad planchet -- in other words, <b>a normal coin</b>.</p><p><br /></p><p>A <i>missing clad layer</i> is an error where one or both cupronickel layers weren&#039;t present on the planchet. Good examples of this are scarce and valuable.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin that started this thread, lo these six years ago, was dirty and/or corroded.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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