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<p>[QUOTE="Sholom, post: 812383, member: 17753"]Make a cheap scale. Here's one that I made with a piece of random plastic, a piece of broken pen (for the tube on the bottom), and some tape. I used it to figure out which of my 1982 cents were copper and which were zinc. You can rig the same thing up with dimes. Place a known clad dime on one side, and set it up so that when you put another clad dime on the other side, nothing happens (not heavy enough), but when you put a known silver dime on the other side, the see-saw moves (heavier). (You can do this by adjusting the position of the coin on the left of my picture)</p><p><br /></p><p>It takes less than five minutes, and, once you set it up with known clads and silver dimes -- you'll find that your test is accurate, definitive, quick, and easy. You'll have no doubt as to whether it's silver or clad.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.cointalk.com/members/sholom/albums/345/5650.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sholom, post: 812383, member: 17753"]Make a cheap scale. Here's one that I made with a piece of random plastic, a piece of broken pen (for the tube on the bottom), and some tape. I used it to figure out which of my 1982 cents were copper and which were zinc. You can rig the same thing up with dimes. Place a known clad dime on one side, and set it up so that when you put another clad dime on the other side, nothing happens (not heavy enough), but when you put a known silver dime on the other side, the see-saw moves (heavier). (You can do this by adjusting the position of the coin on the left of my picture) It takes less than five minutes, and, once you set it up with known clads and silver dimes -- you'll find that your test is accurate, definitive, quick, and easy. You'll have no doubt as to whether it's silver or clad. [IMG]http://www.cointalk.com/members/sholom/albums/345/5650.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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