Dime clad error with reed edge split

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Couple months ago I gave up too from posters reposting stuff over and over again over time of PMD wanting a different answer. Rather than do a "Bellman" I just went on to another hobby for a while.

 

I'm actually looking at dimes as I review the site and this topic... I inspected a 1988 P dime, a while back, in far better shape then the dime shown for this thread. Way, way better shape and I put it in my bucket to be cashed in. No DDO/DDR, as none indicated for this year and mint... nor any DDD or MD on my coin for that matter...

~Rob

 

Your pictures don't show.. Don't matter anyways because it's also damaged post mint.

 

this "rim splitting" is accomplished with an acid strong enough to dissolve copper, but weak enough not to dissolve the nickel in the clad layers on each side of the copper core. in essence the copper is eroded away out of the middle of the coin leaving the nickel behind. done wrong it will also corrode/dissolve the nickel but more slowly, or in the case of a clad coin where the outer layer is copper nickel, it will get at the copper in the alloy. and corrode the nickel.

Now, I'm not going to tell you the acid, and I am going to tell you it's dangerous so don't try it at home, you might hurt yourself or someone else in your house.

Technically if the pH of water is right metals will dissolve and become part of the solution, which is how Copper, Zinc, Iron, Magnesium, Lead, ect. ect. get in water..... when the pH of water drops, the solubility of metals increases as the dissolve and the particles get suspended in the water.

the same thing can be said for soil or dirt, when the pH gets low, metals corrode and dissolve.

Yeah, I've got nothing better to do today.....

 

The OP, above, is definitely someone that you do not want to seek out for advice. ("A fool and his money are soon parted.")

The only thing I can tell *regnoditalia* is that if he doesn't like the answers he has received, then he should spend about $50 and submit his dime to one of the top grading services. If and when he does, and is told that his dime is nothing but damage, I'm pretty sure that we will never hear from him again about this coin.

 

OK, explain how it could happen in the minting process.