Silver Rosie?

[scotto]

Didn't someone on here find a later-date Roosevelt dime that was silver?

I got one today in change that looks and sounds silver, but I don't have any way to weigh it. Here is a pic of it between two clad dimes. It is an '81.

Thoughts?

 

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[schramm]

Scotto,the only post '64 silver dimes that I am aware of were produced after '92 and carried an S or W mint mark.

Anything is possible,I have heard of some '71-'77 halves struck on silver planchets,however I have never seen a photo of one or anyone who claims to have one,doesn't mean they don't exist.

I have found a few quarters in the past made of lead,I don't who made them or why they were made,but when I found the first one as a kid I thought it was silver .It was a 1980.

Can you post a pic of it between the 2 others showing the edges?Thanks.

 

[scotto]

Here ya go, thanks.

 

[low xtreme]

yeah someone found one on this forum a while back, don't remember who though. he traded it for a detector. i think it was on the coin forum or the best finds forum, but i can't search so i dunno.

yours looks like a regular old dime though. i'm pretty sure his had the silver edges with no copper showing

 

[GPURS]

Hey Scotto, like lowextreme mentioned, yes there was someone that posted about a post-64 silver. He traded it for a detector, and then caught some hell on the forum for letting go of the dime too cheap. If memory serves, he posted back in Feb., but I have not checked to see if the pages go back that far. Also, it may have been in the "coins" forum. Last thing, I don't think he posted a picture. Seems as though he found the dime and made the trade for the md all in a pretty short time span. I hope yours is silver, as I think folks were telling him that his was worth many hundreds of dollars (above and beyond the price of the detector). Good luck.

 

[silverfinder]

I'm sure I can see the copper stripe on the middle coin. Sorry, it's clad.

 

[Sheldius]

There is an error that was created when silver was used after 1964 to make the 1965, 1966 dimes. Very rare but it is documented (looked it up on the net) and photographed. Don't know of any after that.

http://www.fredweinberg.com/inventory/item.asp?ID=4282

Some also get struck on aluminum or other alloys for foreign coins:

http://www.fredweinberg.com/inventory/item.asp?ID=4283
http://www.fredweinberg.com/inventory/item.asp?ID=4593