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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 4922700, member: 105098&quot;]I have one from 1974 that is silver also, no copper showing on the edge either, it was plated.</p><p><br /></p><p>Scraping at the reeded edge between the reeds with a razor blade will scratch off the plating, IF you can&#039;t see copper on the edge already. </p><p><br /></p><p>it&#039;s the least conspicuous spot to tamper with it to see if it was previously plated when you can&#039;t tell otherwise.</p><p><br /></p><p>really difficult to tell the dime but the year is wrong for it to be silver, so that puts it at, funky toning in which case the copper on the edge will be visible, it was plated, or the real long shot, an off metal dime struck on a wrong planchet, but as I said, that&#039;s a really long shot.</p><p><br /></p><p>99.99% of the time its plated. and the weight won&#039;t tell you, tissue test won&#039;t work if its&#039; plated, it will sound different if dropped if it&#039;s plated, ect. </p><p><br /></p><p>scraping between the reeds on the edge to see if you can uncover copper is the way to either confirm or rule it out, without very expensive metals testing. </p><p><br /></p><p>And I&#039;ll repeat, I have a silver plated 1974P dime, someone out there was doing it that year.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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