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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JBK, post: 2893313, member: 1101&quot;]Checking non-numismatic sources for numismatic terms can be a bit tricky.&nbsp; To me, in regard to coins, plated and clad are miles apart and not the least bit interchangeable. </p><p><br /></p><p>Clad is multilayers of solid metal fused together - a sandwich. The edge should show the layers. Plated is a solid metal planchet covered in a thin coating of another metal (no layers visible on the edge).</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, there might be a coin somewhere that tests the boundaries, such as a two layer coin (clad usually implies three layers - a core metal sandwiched in between outer layers of another metal), or a coin that was struck from a planchet that had been punched from a strip of metal that had been plated before the blanks were punched out of it (the edge might show the layers but the outer payers are the plating).</p><p><br /></p><p>Just my opinion....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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