1980 Copper Dime???

[gp_eagle]

Found this metal detecting in a backyard - any ideas what this is??? Looks like a penny but it's a dime.

Note: There are some scratches which is what the shiny parts are in the pictures.

 

[Elmy]

Found this metal detecting in a backyard - any ideas what this is??? Looks like a penny but it's a dime.

Note: There are some scratches which is what the shiny parts are in the pictures.

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Clad dime , my friend, some come out of the ground much worse than this one.

 

[T-DUB]

Oxidation, Mother Nature and chemicals like to do their thing. I have found clad quarters with the same “patina”. But hey, that is 10 cents towards something.

 

[Ronstar]

Thats the stuff you have to get of the surface before the banks will take them, numerous recipes for cleaning on here. Sometimes CoinStar will let them pass through.

 

[jim tn]

Yeah, pretty much just a typical dug clad dime. HH jim tn

 

[still looking 52]

Clad dime. If you can find one 1964 or older they were silver back then and they come out of the ground nice and shiny.

 

[gp_eagle]

Thanks for the info! Any suggestions as to remove the oxidation? I've tried vinegar, baking soda + vinegar, WD-40...will anything remove that copper coating?

 

[jim tn]

will anything remove that copper coating?

I clean my clad in a rock tumbler with a mixture of a handful of pea gravel, 1/4th cup of white vinegar and 2 tablespoons of salt. Tumble a good handful of coins for about 1 1/2 hours, depending on how bad they are. Don't clean cents with dimes, nickels and quarters. And for cents I use the above with the exception of using apple cider vinegar rather then white. Good luck. HH jim tn

 

[Rockford]

1/4 cup white vinegar, 10 squirts of Gojo or Orange type pumice hand soap. Just enough water to cover coins. Can fill tumbler about 40 percent full, or my Lortone wont tumble due to weight. Two hours or so, they come out steel gray, decent. As mentioned do pennies separate, or you will make brown quarters. Never tumble a collectible coin.

 

[Picketwire]

If you can find one 1964 or older they were silver back then and they come out of the ground nice and shiny.

Not all of them! I had some that I didn't know were silver until I tumbled them. Be careful to keep from tumbling pennies with dimes and quarters; pennies discolor them pink. You don't need to ask how I know. Also if tumbling corroded zinc pennies, white vinegar will react and bulge the container with too much pressure.

 

[JimmyCT]

Clad dime. If you can find one 1964 or older they were silver back then and they come out of the ground nice and shiny.

Yes they do lol

 

[Mark kus]

Heavy iron in that soil thats what that is.
Mark

 

[gp_eagle]

All great info - thanks everyone!

 

[DFX-Gregg]

one park I hunt the dimes and quarters come out a bright orange... they go all in the tumbler the same way.