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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2313572, member: 66&quot;]Actually the ice starts to melt instantly with any metal, but it does melt faster with silver.&nbsp; Unfortunately since there have never been any standards set as to the size of the coins, the amount of ice, the ambient room temperature, or exactly how long it takes to melt a give amount of ice, the ice test is pretty much worthless.&nbsp; In most cases it boils down to &quot;I put ice on it and it melted so it must be silver&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Are you sure you don&#039;t have that backward.&nbsp; From looking at the mintage figures from each mint I would say San Francisco was striking the silver.&nbsp; During those early years they were really cranking out the clad in order to replace all the silver that was disappearing into hoards.&nbsp; The P and D coinages are huge, the S is relatively modest.&nbsp; If the clads were struck in San Francisco only it would never have been enough&nbsp; to allow&nbsp; for the ending of silver production in 1966.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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