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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 1407055, member: 15929&quot;]To add just a bit more, copper nickel clad coins are over a 100% copper Core. Blanks are literally &quot;pushed&quot; through the copper-nickel clad sheets which causes one side of the cladding to get spread down the sides of the blank. 99.999% of the time, that spread does not cover the entire side of the blank which leaves the 100% copper core showing.</p><p><br /></p><p>Silver clad coins, on the other hand, have an 80% Silver/20% copper cladding over a 20% Silver/80% Copper core. Both alloys are similar in color so that when the blanks get punched, the cladding does not have to cover the entire edge of the blank to give it an all silver appearance.</p><p><br /></p><p>Generally speaking, as the coins age, the 20% Silver/80% Copper cores turn darker that the surfaces of the coin but the NEVER show any copper coloring.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, on edge, a silver clad coin will appear silver colored while a copper nickel clad coin will, 99.999% of the time, show a pure copper core. The .001% of the time that they don&#039;t usually means that the cladding was spread down the entire side of the blank as it was punched out but the edge will appear a dull gray, not silver.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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