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What kind of metal is in a dime 2024?
silver
copper clad
Questioner:Julian Patel 2023-04-20 00:29:59
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Avery Taylor——Studied at the University of Tokyo, Lives in Tokyo, Japan.
With the passage of the Coinage Act of 1965, the composition of the dime changed from 90 percent
silver and 10 percent
copper to a
clad "sandwich" of pure
copper inner layer between two
outer layers of
cupronickel (75%
copper, 25%
nickel) alloy giving a total composition of 91.67% Cu and 8.33% Ni.
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